Last Sunday, Pastor Kyle, preached on the Christian walk in this life and the reasons why many choose not to except the Bible narrative and gospel truth.
Many ask if a professing Christian walks away from the faith really loses their salvation? Pastor Kyle states that the answer is a solid “absolutely not”, with a hint of maybe. Reason why is because the question arises if the person actually repented of their sins, understood and excepted the atoning sacrifice death on the cross of Jesus Christ in their place, and dedicated their life to following the word of God, and the teachings of the Lord. Nobody can see our heart except God.
The parable of the sower speaks to this in terms of the different soils, that the seed fell upon, and the associated result they arrived. Of course, the seed represented the word of God, and the soil represented the heart of the individual receiving the Word of God.
Some of the main reasons that Pastor Kyle stated for people not converting and receiving the transformational sanctification and justification, is (1) the lack of initial commitment evidenced by unwillingness to change one’s worldview and lifestyle. Everybody has a worldview. Whether it is a secular, humanistic, worldview, or a biblical worldview everybody sees the world through a belief system that guides what they think and do.
(2) People have a hard time, understanding, pain and hardship in the world. We live in a world that has fallen in sin, yet since it is the only world that we know, we are unaware of any other world prior and naturally deal with the fact that there is pain, suffering, and hardships that have resulted from this fall of now, but wonder how God allows it.
There is also , the very real problem of evil in the world. Evil is the absence of God. God allows pain, suffering, hardships, and evil to exist but they are not of God. God made the world good, and God is working to restore the world to good. We should always challenge our circumstances and beliefs with the words of God and stand firm on his promises.
We are in this world for a purpose within this time and place that we have been placed, and we need to align our will with God’s will and our purposes with his purposes, always looking for an opportunity to use our God-given gifts to advance the kingdom of God, and to lead others to the foot of the cross by the gospel of salvation.
The mission is not to determine if you can lose your salvation, but to live godly lives and to seek those who need salvation and to help them because that is God’s plan and what Jesus did.
In Christ, Brian.
No comments:
Post a Comment