Right open your Bible to the book of Galatians chapter 1
Beginning with verse 1 reading down through verse 9. I hope you'll follow very carefully
Paul an apostle not by the will of men
But by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised it from the dead
All the brethren which are with me under the churches of Galatia
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and
from
our Lord Jesus Christ
Who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present even world
according to the will of God and our Father
To whom be glory forever and ever
Amen
I'm Marvel that you're so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ
Unto another gospel
Which is not another?
There be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ
But though we are an angel from heaven preach any other gospel under you and that which we have preached unto you
Let him be accursed
As we said before so say I now again
if any man
Preach any other gospel unto you and that ye received
Let him be accursed or let him be damned
Now let's bow our heads for prayer
And our Heavenly Father I want to be very clear this morning I
Understand
And be understood completely I
Pray the folk will work at listening
May they draw no conclusions till the sermon is concluded, but may they listen very carefully
It is so difficult to balance
ourselves as Christians
After Bob Jones senior once said the most difficult thing in the world to do is to maintain proper balance
It's true in the Christian life
It's true as a preacher the gospel
When there's so many truths in the Bible, it's not always easy to keep the truth in its proper place and in its proper context
But a text without a context is a pretext
And I want to be honest with the Bible and so hope our folk to listen very carefully today in
Jesus name
Amen
Verse six false that I marvel
That you're so soon removed from him that calls you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel and
this verse Paul
contrasts the gospel of the grace of God
with
Another gospel which he does not define. He simply calls it another gospel
In verse 7 he said which is not another
That sounds like a contradiction but the two words another do not come from the same Greek word
The word another in verse 6
Where he says unto another gospel it means another different than the one we preach
Verse
7 when he said which is not another the Greek word means another of the same kind
So that I might paraphrase it to say I
Marvel that you're so soon removed from him that calls you into the grace of Christ
Unto a gospel that is not like this one
Which is not like the one we preach
So there are two words another it seems like a contradiction, but it's not
Then he goes on to say there be some that trouble you
The implication being a preaching of the other kind of gospel troubles people
And would pervert the gospel of Christ
And then he says something very strong in verse 8
But though we are an angel from heaven
Preach any other gospel
unto you than that which ye have
preached unto you
let him be accursed or let him be damned and
Then he emphasized it by saying it over again in verse 9 as we have said
So say I now again
If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received
Let him be accursed or let him be damned
Now I want you to get the picture here and I want to depart from this and you'll see why I read it
Paul said I'm startled. I'm marveled. I can't believe
That you have been removed
From the gospel of the grace of Christ
unto another gospel so soon
Now the another gospel is not defined
But I'm going to define it based upon the application of the text
The gospel of the grace of Christ is one thing
Another gospel would be any gospel
That would destroy the grace of God I
mean
If you preach that a man is saved by the substitutionary death of Jesus
By trusting Christ with all of his heart and
Then add some form of works to that
Then you've destroyed grace in the gospel. I
Could not put it any better than Romans chapter 11 verse 6 puts it
And if by grace then it is no more works
Otherwise grace is no more grace
But if it be of works then it's no more grace
Otherwise work is no more work
What he's saying is it can't be grace and works
It has to be grace or works
and
We have a poor concept of the idea of grace. I
Used to work for a loan company and they they would give you what they call a grace period
You didn't pay you a debt on time. They gave you five days grace before you got a late notice and
Then were tagged with a late charge
And they call that a grace fear. That's not grace at all
That's probation
That's not grace
Grace is the unmerited
undeserved favor of God
Toward hell-deserving sinners without any expectation of return on the part of the sinner
That's quite a mouthful, but I hope you got it I
Don't understand
Why it is
That you can get so confused over the doctrine of salvation
But if you ask the next ten people you see
Move away from the church to ask them ask the next ten people you see how does a person go to heaven?
You'll probably get ten different answers even in the Bible belt
But in the final analysis there's only two ways to be saved are two schemes of salvation that is put forth by man
one scheme is that man saves himself and
The other scheme is that God saves a man
Those who teach that man saves himself may say
That man saves himself by
Reforming his life and cleaning his life up before he's saved the marriage salvation
Or they may say that man saves himself by promising to keep the Ten Commandments before he's saved
Our man saves himself by receiving the seven sacraments
Our man saves himself by obeying the gospel whatever that means
Because there's only one definition of the gospel in the Bible and you can't obey the gospel
The only thing you can do is believe the gospel
First Corinthians 15 the first four verses Paul said I declared unto you the gospel
How that Jesus died for our sins according to the scriptures?
How that he was buried and how that he was raised from the dead the third day according to the scriptures
That is the gospel
Romans 1 16 Paul said I'm not ashamed of the gospel for it the gospel is
The power of God unto salvation to everyone that behaves it
That's the unauthorized translation
To everyone that believes it the only thing you do with the gospel is believe it
The gospel is the good news of how Jesus came to this earth. I
died on a cross in your place for your sins
How that he was buried and the ray and was raised from the dead the third day. That's the gospel
Don't confuse the truth with the gospel
The gospel is the truth, but all truth is not the gospel
It is the truth that I have on a necktie this morning, but that's not the gospel
It is the truth that I'm standing on the platform, but that's not the gospel
All truth is not the gospel, but all the gospel is the truth
You follow me
When I preach on hell, I don't preach the gospel
But I preach on hell I preach a Bible truth that ought to be preached and Jesus preached it, but I don't preach the gospel
Hell is not good news
Hell's bad news
But when I preach it Jesus loves sinners and Jesus died on a cross in the sinner's place to pay the sinner's debt and
They buried him and after three days God raised him from the dead as a declaration that he was the son of God with power
according to the spirit of holiness for the resurrection from the dead and
To show that he was satisfied with the payment. Jesus made for our sins. I am now preaching the gospel
and
That's the fire of God and salvation to everyone that believes it
An old preacher stood before a large crowd of young preachers and one young pastor said to him, sir, give us a word of advice
And the old preacher said my preacher brother and make it plain to me and how they are to be saved
and
You have what I call muddying the gospel. I
Like the waters of the grace of God to stay crystal clear
And it bothers me when people come along and throw
The works of the mud of good works in the waters and muddy up the gospel of grace
It bothers me and I almost feel like Paul to say
Though we are an angel from heaven preach unto you any other gospel. Let him be down
You say that'd be awful strong, yeah, but I can quote Paul Kenner
I'm say Paul said if we are an angel from heaven preach any other gospel. Let him go to hell
Quiet in here and
Yet there's something about humanity that makes us want to add something to the gospel
We want to help God out if we can't help him save us
We want to help him
To keep ourselves safe as we get safe
Just like Adam
When he realized he was naked he went out and sewed fig leaves together
he knew something was wrong and he tried to write it and
before God made an appearance in the garden his feet leaves were acceptable by by Eve and they were
Acceptable to himself and they were happy with their fig leaf religion till God came
So when God came they were embarrassed with their fig leaf religion and they ran and hid themselves and
God killed an innocent animal, which is a picture of the substitutionary death of Jesus and
God skinned that animal and took the skins and made coats for Adam and Eve and he didn't let him keep one
single fig leaf of their own making
And you may be satisfied to stand before men with your religion and
You may say I'm satisfied with my religion
I
Don't ask you something. Are you going to still feel that way about it when you stand eyeball to eyeball with God Almighty?
Who put his son on a cross in your place and lowered him down with your sin and poured his wrath out of his own son?
So he would so he could save you from the wrath of sin, which is hell
Are you gonna feel satisfied to stand before God with a fig leaf religion that you have
Stay with me. I'll probably a little longer this morning. This is all introduction
Now I want to shock you so you got to stay with me
There are some that say one must give over the control of his life to Christ in order to be saved
If you do not give over the control of your life to Christ at the moment of salvation you are not saved
Now
The question is must there be a commitment to Christ as the Lord of one's life in order to be saved
People who preach that say you cannot divorce his Savior hood from his lordhood
You can't accept him as Savior without accepting him as the Lord of your life also
Well, that's the question
and
Some make up some people make bold statements
Saying that unless Jesus Christ is the Lord of your life you are not saved
But when you go to pin those fellas down and say
Has he been the Lord of your life since the day you trusted Jesus Christ his Savior up until now
Has there been a time since the moment of your salvation that he has not been the absolute sovereign Lord of your life
They will hesitate and say well, he's always been Lord, but there's some times I didn't obey him
Well when you didn't obey him you were the boss not him
John 13 Jesus said why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things I command you
It's inconsistent to call him Lord Lord and not do what he says
So when you really began to question the matter they rephrase their statement to say
Well, I'm not saying that you must absolutely make him Lord of your life in order to be saved
But there must be a willingness to be controlled by the Lord at the time of salvation
Plus faith in what he did at the cross in order to be saved
And the question comes back if there must be a willingness
For him to have the absolute control over your life at the moment of salvation
Then how long appeared must there be when you're willing and how long can you wait before you're unwilling and start disobeying again?
Now it gets down to this you were saved by grace through faith, or you're saved by grace through faith plus surrender
And I believe you're saved by grace through faith
And as good as I try to live I'd go to hell if I wasn't saved by grace and everybody else would too
And old Spurgeon used to say if it should ever come to pass that sheep of God could fall away
Alas, my fickle feeble soul would fall
10,000 times a day
Now
If
Salvations by grace through faith and Paul said I marvel that you're so soon removed from the grace of God into another gospel
I told you the good news of God's grace of his unmerited favor and you've been moved to something else and I marvel at you
so soon removed
He goes on to say if somebody else preaches another gospel
Even if it's an angel from heaven let him be a curse or let him be damned or let him go to hell is what
the Bible says
Pretty strong language
If it's salvation by grace through faith as Ephesians 2 8 & 9 declares
Then it's not salvation by grace through faith plus surrender plus promises plus enduring to the inner plus anything else
It's salvation by grace through faith period
You
Say dr. Hudson, don't you believe in surrender? Absolutely
Wholeheartedly but not to be saved I
Believe eating corn bread and butter beans, but not to be born again. I
I
Believe in sucking the bottle when you're born is a little infant baby
But not to become a baby because you are a baby and so you can grow as a baby
It all depends on where you put it. That's all
The diamond ring is a beautiful thing on your finger as long as in the right place
It's admired but you take it and put it down in your shoe and walk around with it
And when it gets out of place, it becomes a bad thing
You
Take the surrender of the life to the absolute lordship of Christ is a beautiful and wonderful thing and every Christian ought to be surrendered
to Christ
But you put it on the other side of salvation and make it a requirement for salvation and it becomes an early
Ugly dirty wicked thing and replaces the grace of God for salvation. I
Want to pitch it along this morning I've been here in a while
Let me give you some Bible examples of uncommitted believers
First I'll call your attention to some who had definite lapses from a full surrendered life after they were saying
I'll take David for one of them
David may have surrendered his life to the lordship of Christ at the moment of his conversion
But he dead sure wasn't Lord of David's life
When he went to bed with Bathsheba
David was Lord at that time David was running the show
David may have surrendered to the lordship of Christ at the moment of salvation. I'm not saying it did I'm saying he may have
But Jesus Christ was not Lord when he sent Uriah out into battle and had him killed. That's murder
Wasn't Lord then
I'm saying David did not submit to that lordship
I'm saying his life was not committed to the absolute total control of Christ when he committed adultery and murder
So he definitely had a lapse
If total surrender was a prerequisite to salvation did he lose his salvation until he totally surrendered again?
Sure, he did if total surrender was a prerequisite he lost it
But he didn't lose it. All he lost was a joy of his salvation in Psalm 51
I'll give you another example
Noah was saved by the grace of God and the word grace is used in connection with the salvation of Noah
He found grace in the eyes of the Lord
And when the ark landed Noah got drunk
And in a drunken stupor, he took his clothes off and he was naked
And his sons backed up to keep him looking on his nakedness and covered him up
if Noah surrendered and
Committed his life to the lordship of God when he was saved he had a lapse
You
Can't say Jesus Christ was controlling his life when he got drunk. No, I was controlling his life when he got drunk
I'll give you another example
Apostle Peter
Who said the lawmen forsake the I'll never forsake thee
And that dirty bum
I
Followed the enemy
Warned himself by the devil's fire and one of the enemy came by and said hey that fellow there's one of them
That's he's one of the Lord's boys. Oh, it's I don't know Jesus
Okay, yeah, he's one of them no, I don't know Christ I'm not one of them
And a woman came by and said you were one of his disciples your speech betrays you and he said you blanketed blank blank low
Down stinking moment. I don't know Jesus Christ never knew him
Watch out Peter
If he surrendered for the lordship of Christ and total commitment at the moment of the conversion
He had a lapse when he cussed and said he never knew Jesus Christ
And what about John chapter 21 when he quit the ministry
He said I go efficient you pay gold which is a public announcement I never intend to preach again
I'm through preaching act with it and six preachers went with it
When he got out in that fishing boat he took his clothes off
He's out there naked in the middle of the night in a fishing boat fishing
on John chapter 21
If he was surrendered to Jesus Christ totally at the moment of conversion he was not surrendered totally to Jesus Christ man
Because he quit preaching and God had called him to preach
And God had to come and warm his backslidden heart for the fires in John 21 before he preached in Acts chapter 2
And had 3,000 converted
So I could go on all morning give you example after example after example after example out of the Bible
How many if they were totally surrendered had a lapse in that yieldedness our surrender our commitment after they were saved
I
May give you a second example from the Bible I
Won't take time to explain it but study acts 19 you have the conversion of some people at Ephesus
They had been worshiping the God Diana
An important part of that worship included the superstitious dependence on magical words
And charms and saves
And
Turn to Acts if you will chapter 19
Paul had been there two years preaching in
Acts chapter 19 been there two years preaching
And these people had believed on Christ and
Verse 18 says and many that believe came and confessed and showed their deeds
You study the first part of this book. You'll find that someone had believed as much as two or two years earlier
And those who had believed some as much as two years earlier according to the context read it for yourself
Verse 19 says many of them also which use curious and if you look at the margin is magical
Magical arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it
950,000 pieces of silver nine thousand three hundred dollars worth of books burn
This is two years after they trusted Jesus Christ as Savior, they're just now burning up their books of magic two years later
Here are people who were saved without at the moment of salvation being absolutely committed to Christ
How many of you were saved
And after you were saved you began to quit habits, let's say how many of you look alright embarrass some people
How many of you quit smoking after you got saved raise your hand?
Put them down. How many have quit smoking in order to get saved raise your hand
How many of you quit drinking after you got saved raise your hand you don't get drunk anymore raise your hand
Put them down. How many you quit drinking in order to get saved raise your hand out of one of you
You don't get better to get saved you get saved to get better you can't get better till you do get saved
You don't have anything to get better with
So here you have people in Acts 19 who were believers
Who had not totally committed themselves to Christ even at the moment of believing on Christ and two years later
They burned their magic books two years later. I
Was saved when I was 11 years old there are many things I never heard in that country. I didn't hear beans about separation. I
Knew nothing about total surrender. I knew nothing about the spirit feel out
I knew nothing about witnessing and so on I was saved in a primitive Baptist
anti-education anti-emissions church
Then I was everything but totally committed and totally surrendered I
Just came to Jesus a poor law center and threw myself on Jesus Christ, that's all I did
You say you're not safe and you don't know what you're talking about
I'm not saved God almighty is the biggest liar that ever lived
If I don't have everlasting life Jesus Christ deliberately 99 times and the Gospel of John deliberately deceived me about it
I have it
Yeah, they got rid of their magic books two years later, but you know why they got rid of them
Because you read Acts chapter 19 seven sons of Seavey seven
professional
Traveling exorcist tried to cast the demons out of a demon-possessed boy and the demon-possessed man
Jumped on all seven of them and beat them about half to death and left the wounded naked and it scared the daylights out of
Those church members. They decided to better clean their lives up
And they begin one at a time to bring in the magic books and build a bonfire the magic books
Give you a third example a third example is the example of a lifelong refusal
To commit oneself to the lordship of Christ that is a lot of Christ
They're completely be the boss and Lord and sovereign and control over his life and his name is a lot
If you only read the Old Testament example of lot you wouldn't believe he was saved
You have to read 2nd Peter 2 7 & 8 or you'd never believe it I'll read it and still sometime don't believe it
But the Bible said lot that just man J ust just and in verse 8
He says that righteous man vexed his soul daily with a filthy conversation of the wicked twice in verse 8
He's called the righteous man the righteous man verse 7 calls him the just man
But you read the Old Testament account of him and you don't see where he was ever at any time
Before or after salvation surrendered to God
If you think it was you better read it again his uncle Abraham set out on a journey and lot just followed his uncle
The
Process is
Heard a cattle grew and his cowboys begin to fight with Abraham's cowboys. They call them herdsmen back then
and they decide they better separate because they're hurting to fight each other and fussing over the cattle and
This little puny but status-range backbone nephew looked up at this giant of faith Abraham
And Abraham said the lot you go either way you want to and lot looked towards the
Mountains and he looked toward the well-watered plains of Jordan that dirty bum if he has surrendered
He ought to said Abraham uncle Abraham. I'm not in for to be out here
I just followed you you make the choice and I'll take the one you don't want with that little pips week
He took the well-watered plains of Jordan
He should have said uncle aid you take what you want
He wasn't surrendered and he went down to Sodom and he called the sodomites brothers. That's not surrendering
You call somebody doesn't believe the Bible a brother in Christ. You're not surrendering
So
You don't know much about the Bible the only man your brother's a man who's received Jesus Christ as Savior
You become a son of God by faith, John 1 12
He calls wicked sodomites brethren
You think he surrendered to Christ keep reading about him
Two angels come down from heaven lot takes them into his house and the young men and old men of the city of Sodom
Compassed the house of a lot about and clamor and cry
Saying send those men out here that we may know them. They wanted to commit homosexuality with two angels that came from heaven
Both young and that's where you get your word Sodom from or sodomy
And you know what that surrendered dedicated man did
No unsurrendered
Undedicated
Uncommitted man did he said I have two daughters in here who have never known a man. I have two virgin daughters
I'll send them out and you do what you won't do with them
Does that sound I've committed Christian to you
No, it doesn't
Keep reading did you ever find him committed I never did
And when God
Sent an angel down to him to get out of Sodom. He lingered didn't want to leave. He loved it so good
He liked that wickedness and sin in Sodom and he stayed in there loving it like a hot love slot
Ours may believe you saved with the Bible said he was
And finally the angel had to get him but the army and drag him out of Sodom hold a fine brimstone rain then from heaven
He
Was so worldly and uncommitted and unsurrendered his sons and laws laughed at him when he tried to win him to Christ they mocked
at him
Talk about getting a save on us to plead the judgment. They laughed at his testimony
He followed him if you think he's committed and
fine brimstone rains down from God out of heaven and they leave Sodom and Gomorrah and he goes out into a cave and he
Takes with him his wife and two daughters
And his wife looked back in terms of pill of salt and he goes into a cave with his two daughters
And he got drunk in that cave I'll ask you something was there a liquor store in that cave
Was there a wine shop back then it came he walked back in the back I said
Anybody home here want to buy two bottles?
It was a key that no liquor store, and I can you wear that wine came from
He brought that with him out of Sodom didn't want to leave when he left they had to drag him out
He stuck a bottle of wine or something under his coat and hit it and when they drag him out of Sodom
He got out there in a cave and got drunk in the cave
While
He was drunk he committed a daughter with both of his daughters and both of them gave birth to babies and curse the world with
two races of people
So you have three examples from the Bible number one example is men who trusted Christ and who had lapses and their yield in this
are surrender after they had trusted Christ and
You have example in who trusted Christ, but did not surrender until at least two years later
And you have an example of a man who never did yield his life to Christ who never was
Surrendered to Christ from the time he was saved until the time he died. He was never surrendered
Let me give me a few more minutes
Don't you have Bible examples that refute lordship salvation
But you have clear passages of Scripture
2nd Corinthians 12 3 says
No, man can cause Jesus Christ Lord except by the Holy Ghost
and get it a
Fella who does not have
The presence of the Holy Spirit and his life is not a Christian
Romans 8 9 says they that have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his
The Bible said in Galatians 4 6 because you are sons he's given you the Spirit of his son
Whereby you cry have a father
Cut that machine off of that will we get through down here
You will please no distractions
Sometimes we have to leave the church for various reasons, so I
Don't like any distractions. I'm preaching all the quiet here now. I want you to look right at me
Go back to what I was saying Bible passage no man can call Jesus Christ Lord except with the Holy Ghost
And you don't have the Holy Ghost till after you're saved
You're born of the Spirit John chapter 3 your seal by the Spirit Ephesians 4 30 if you have not the Spirit
You're not a Christ Romans 8 9
Galatians 4 6 because your sons he's given you his spirit
And if you can't call him Lord without the Holy Ghost and you must call him Lord to get saved
And you're not saved without the Holy Ghost. You've got a problem
Philippians 2 13 said it is God that worketh in you both the will and to do his good pleasure
God gives the desire to do and God supplies the power to do what he gave the desire to do and
If you had the desire and the power to do it before you got saved you wouldn't need to be saved
Here the book of Romans I like Romans Romans is a book about salvation
If I had time I'd preach about four chapters here
Romans chapter 3 says everybody needs to be saved
It describes humanity it lays the human being out on God's table and gives him a divine
Diagnosis I guess
And he looks at man who says his
his mouth
Under his tongue is a poison of ass
So he's like an open sepulcher his hand shed innocent blood his feet are swift to run to mischief
He describes man from the crime of his whole head to the sole of his feet and says man is totally depraved and a sinner
And in Romans 3 said is none righteous. No, not one all have sinned. I'm sure the glory of God
Romans chapter 3 packs it out says everybody needs to be saved and in Romans chapter 4
It gives you at least three or four ways that you can't be saved
And in Romans chapter 5 it tells you the only way to be saved
Therefore being justified by faith. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ
Justified by what by surrender by commitment. No justified by faith
Now here people justified by faith in Romans chapter 4 fine
Hang with me a minute
but in chapter 12, he's talking to people who are Christians and
He says in chapter 12 verse 1 and 4 I beseech you therefore
Brothering in view of all God's mercies that you present your body's a living sacrifice
Holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to the world
But that be transformed by the renewing of your mind
You get that
Now, wait a minute Paul you mixed up doc
Cuz you see they have to have be totally surrendered before they ever get saved. So you don't call it unsurrendered crowd brothers
And Paul call them brothers we call them brothers you mark it down he knows where their brothers are not
They are born-again believers
But they're uncommitted
Unsurrendered believers and Paul is pleading with them in view of all God's mercies that they give their body to God a living sacrifice
That's Christian
The problem is you confuse the requirements
But a sample ship with the requirements for salvation
The word disciple and and Christian are being saved is not one and the same
They're always thought so you've been always wrong
You say where'd you get that out of Bible
But a sample is a learner
Who sets at the feet of the teacher and absorbs the teaching and tries to incarnate the truth and imitate the teacher
But a believer is not necessarily a disciple
And a disciple is not necessarily a believer
You say I don't believe it. All right, give you up give you up. I'll give you something. You gotta believe it
I'll drown you
Luke chapter 6
Verse 13 says Jesus called unto him his disciples and out of them
He chose 12 whom he also called apostles and he named him in one of them is Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot was a disciple, but he was not saved
He was a learner who followed Jesus around and listened to him and and learned from him he was a learner
He was a disciple, but he was lost and he went to hell when he died
You can't say that yes I can John 6 verse 70
I
Chosen 12 and one of you is a devil this fake
He of Judas Iscariot or he no knew who it was who should betray
Judas was never saved. He wasn't saved lost. He was a devil from the beginning
Come on man, but he was the disciple according to Luke 6 verse 13
So you confuse the requirements for discipleship with the promise of salvation
You say but the Bible said if any man come after me and let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
The Bible said if you don't love the Lord with all your heart with all your soul with all your strength and hate your father
And your mother and all that you can't be a disciple and the Bible said you don't forsake all you have
You can't be a disciple. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen, but remember keep saying disciple
Don't say go to heaven that's not what God said he said disciple
God never says come after me for salvation. He says come unto me for salvation come after me for service
He never said anything to the sinner except believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and I should be saved
Give me a little time this morning
Look
At Luke chapter 14 verse 16 down through 24 you have the parable of the Great Supper
Man build a great supper he bites everybody to come since his service that go and get the hold of the lame in the black
Tell everybody to come in for taking my supper and he said no no no
That's an invitation to a gospel feast
Which results if you accept it in feasting at the marriage supper of the Lamb
But once you have the parable of the Great Supper talking about just coming to Christ just come in accepting what he has to offer
then he begins in verse 24 or 25 and gives the parable of the
building of the tower and the power of the king going to war and in between those two parables
he lays down three requirements for discipleship not salvation and
One of them is verse 25 or 26, I don't have my Bible when he's quoting but remember you look at it
If
Any men come to me and hate not his father and mother and his wife and his children and his brothers and his sisters
And his own life. He can't be mad a sample
Now they say there it is
You say no
wait a minute if you're going to make that a requirement for salvation and you're going to use that to
substantiate your teaching of total commitment to Christ
Our willingness at the point of salvation that I'm going to tell you going to take another verse because that verse does not say
And
Whosoever is not willing to hate his mother and father, but it said whosoever does not hate his father and mother
And
The next verse as whosoever not take his cross and follow me
It does not who does not say whosoever is not willing to take his cross
You see when you tear down the lordship salvation, they don't have anywhere to go
So they change it say but well, it don't mean you'll always be Lord maybe you will always obey
But it means you're willing
But now they've got to pass some more verses
Because it doesn't say willing but doing
Verse 33 does not say and
Whosoever does not forsake all that he has it says it does not say whosoever is not willing to forsake all he has
But he says he must forsake all he has not being willing to it
But doing it doing it doing it doing it not willing to do it do it
But they say the Bible said believe on the Lord Jesus and I should be said sure it did
But don't put the emphasis there put the emphasis on the word believe
It didn't say obey the Lord Jesus and I should be saying said believe on the Lord Jesus and I should be saying
Come on talk
Say amen or go home
I
Said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and I should be saved. Amen. Amen. Amen
Not obey behave believe
If I'm gonna jump off a building and I got a and I got a mechanic down here holding one in the net and the
doctor holding the other end
And a plane pilot holding the other in the net
And a ditch digger holding the other in the net
I'm gonna jump off the bend. I'm gonna trust believe rely depend on him to catch me and another believe on my doctor
The mask of the dentist and I should be saying that don't mean I got any pull all my teeth and ought to get saved
That just means I'm gonna trust him to catch me in that net come on talk to me
If it says believe on on mr.
So-and-so the insurance salesman to be saying
Let me ensure semi holding the net ain't gonna catch me. It doesn't mean I got about my insurance on to get saved
Come on, don't tell me it just means you're gonna have to trust him to hold that net for me. Come on
Sure Aquinas more than some reason you're not going anywhere. I'm not through
Sit down and take yourself down good. I'm not finished. I
Don't like it's other gospel like the gospel of the clear
Waters the grace of God nobody throwing mud in it. Take your dirty hands off of it, buddy
Say by grace through faith when we get to heaven we're gonna sing when you get to heaven
You're gonna say
Thou art worthy
What thou hast redeemed us by that one out of every tinge and every tongue in every nation?
You're not gonna say we
Because we have been committed and
Surrendered and yielded. Oh, you'll say that
These lordship salvation folk if they make it to heaven won't have anything to talk about in him
Cuz gonna be grace up there. Oh my soul blessed by the Jehovah
We
Sing amazing grace if they're not amazing surrendering lordship and commitment
Come on fella
Get it where it ought to be
You know what happens somebody come along and coins what I'm preaching easy believe ism that's the easy believers
And it's easy believe ism and you're so scared of that word that you say whoop
I don't want to preach easy believe that I put a little works in here somewhere
Don't nobody accuse me of preaching easy believe and we'll look at me right now straight in the face. I preach easy believers
Straight my eyeballs I preach easy believers and go tell the world if you preach something else you preach another gospel
But I'm using your expression not mine
I said it because you said it because the final analysis
Completely trusting Jesus Christ and him alone for salvation is not easy
That's the hardest thing I thought of a tribe do he wants to help God the natural thing is to help God
The hardest thing is to put it all in God's head and totally trust him
That's the hardest thing you ever did because you're called upon to believe in someone whom your eyes have never seen
You're called upon to believe in someone and you've never met an eyewitness who ever saw him
You're called upon to believe in someone whom the scholarship so-called scholarship of the day deny generally speaking
You're called upon to believe in someone that died on a cross 2,000 years ago
You're called upon to believe in someone that the only record you have of him has been kept by his friends not his enemies
That's hard to accept. That's hard to believe
I'm gonna believe anyway
You call it easy it's hard buddy, it's hard
And you're called upon not only believe in his existence
But to believe that by depending on him you can be justified on the basis that he was made guilty for your sins
Shake your old peanut brain around
I gotta believe that every sin I've ever committed and ever will commit was laid on Jesus 2,000 years ago. I gotta believe that
I only believe that I gotta trust it depend on it and
The devil will keep coming back to you all the time saying how you know, you're trusting how you know, you're depending it's hard to do
Now you start you say well, I know I'm believing it's how you know you I didn't have any proof of my believing
So
I'd just say the devil I know I'm for not believing I'll start believing now pray it all over again
Don't
Call it easy believe isn't put it a label on me you want to put on me
But it's not easy to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
I'm getting men to give money walk church a house
I'm getting men to surrender to lordship make all kind of commitments
But it's hard to get them to stand out completely
unreservedly wholeheartedly and without reservation on Jesus Christ what he did at the cross for salvation
They keep want to do something else help God out
And I have to keep putting them back on the word and on what Jesus not let me help him a lot get back on
Here and stand on Jesus Christ and him alone for yourself
It's not easy that's hard
But they misrepresent the people who preach like I do
They say he is he could they just say that if you believe in God you're saying I never said that I
Very seldom if ever say believe without stopping to say depend rely and trust
And I always use the illustration of the airplane you can believe there's a plane that'll fly
But you'll never make the trip until you trust yourself to the plane lean on the plane rest on the plane put your
Physical life in the hands of a pilot you don't see or you'll never make the trip
I never just stop to believe there's a God and be saved no
Because the Bible word believe means to trust to depend to rely on but it doesn't mean total commitment absolute surrender
You'll be honest with me
There's not a one of you that could say that when you were saved you totally committed yourself to Christ and have been absolutely
Surrendered since the moment you were saved not in the people who teach lordship salvation
Will say they've been totally committed. They'll say well. He's been my lord, but I disobeyed him a lot since I've been saved
But when you disobeyed him he wasn't Lord you us
He wasn't Lord of your life
We say he's always Lord. Yes
I know the word Lord customer Hebrew word of don't yeah, which means master it also comes the word Jehovah
Which is a personal name of God?
Several translations of the word I know that
In that sense he's everybody's Lord. He's the tadpole's Lord and
The bumblebees Lord and the bullfrogs Lord and the rattlesnakes Lord, he's master the whole universe
He didn't do what he wants to when he wants to
But when I talk about being Lord
I'm talking about you yielding for him to have the absolute control of your life saying we're to Jesus which way Lord I'll do anything
You want that's what I'm talking about
If you mean when you get saved you to say Jesus is Lord
You'll be like Matthew 7 verse 22 was not everyone that says to me Lord Lord
Shut under the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my father's one thing say Lord Lord
It's nothing to do what the Lord says
Come on I
Want to help God out don't we
You say man brother Curtis you make it too easy
I'm afraid to fool with anything mess it up
When Jesus divides the whole world into two groups, I'll be through in a minute
I
Verse 18 John chapter 3 he that believeth on the Son is not condemned
He that believeth not is condemned already because he has not committed his life to Christ
No, no, no, brother. He's condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God
Why is a man condemned because he won't trust completely the Lord Jesus Christ
You trusting your salvation your commitment your surrender. I hate to tell you going to hell when you die
John
336 use divide the whole world into two groups
He that believeth on the Son has everlasting life
He that believeth not the Son shall not see life with the wrath of God abides on him
What did say you don't believe on Jesus Christ you go into hell when you die. I didn't say it the Bible said it Jesus
Mark 16 16 he that believeth not shall be damned
Not he that believeth not and surrender not and is not committed but he that believeth not should be damned
I
Said this to a guy last Sunday one week ago today. He said but preacher that's so easy
He said what is the incentive for service? I?
Said first John 4 19 we love him
Not because we're afraid we'll lose our salvation but because he first loved us
You love him because he loved you
Well, what's your incentive for service second Corinthians 5 14 the love of Christ constrains me it urges me it compels me
It pushes me on. I love Jesus so much. I can't quit
You love God like you ought to let me you'll serve I
Don't serve because I'm afraid I might lose my salvation
Not if I serve because I think I must stay totally committed and surrendered in order to be saved. I
Serve because I love him and I want to serve him and I think any other kind of service makes God sick
Because first Corinthians chapter 13 says though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not agape love translated charity
I'm become as a sound in brass and a tinkling cymbal
And though I have all faith so that I could say to you on the mountain be plucked up and cast into the sea and
Have not love. I'm nothing
Though I was to all my good to feed the poor and give my body to be burned and I'm not motivated by genuine love
For Jesus Christ it profited me net
I
Said all service I'll be motivated by love not fear
You know why I work make a living my family because I'm afraid
No, I'm not afraid
Not the least bit afraid I do it cause I love
The motivation of service is not fear but love
And you preach like I preach you're saying you make it too easy
No
You're not you preach the other way and you muddy up the gospel of the grace of God and a poor fellow who's not saved
Says well you tell him you gotta surrender the lordship of Christ. You gotta be totally committed and totally yielded
Oh, you can't be saved and a poor fellow. Thanks. Oh me
How can I quit that and that and the other and that and the other he's not saved remember?
He doesn't have the Holy Spirit. He does not have the new nature which comes at the moment of conversion
All he has an old sinful nature you'll never convince him he could ever live what you
Like you want him to live
you want to lead him to Christ and get him born again by trusting Jesus and
Get that divine nature in him and the life. He thought he couldn't live. He now wants to live and finds power to live it
Not only that you preach another gospel and say you have to be committed and surrendered and everything else
You know what you're doing you don't what Paul said they were doing you trouble some have troubled you preached another gospel
Which is conjured to the grace of God you trouble a congregation
It is not by business. Give me a try to talk every one of you out of your salvation. I
Studied about
You have confidence in me
Why I keep trying to prove to you. You're not saying you're not saying you're not saying you're not saying you're not saying
You're not saying you're not saying and I keep working on you and while I get you to doubt
And I trouble you just like they trouble the people in Galatia
But I'm not gonna do it I'm gonna preach to you the pure
crystal-clear
Salvation by grace
faith
And I'm gonna tell you after you're saved if you don't behave yourself
God will take you out behind the woodshed and pull your britches down and tear you up
I
Based on Hebrews chapter 12
And then I'm gonna tell you
That you're saying you want to surrender to God and be a soul winner and read your Bible and pray
I'm going to church and be a good Christian
But I'll tell you do that to get saved. I'll never win you to Christ
My little boy boy is born he won't be born to the world be my son. So you'll become dr. Hudson son
He's not born yet. He's way back down and never in the other land. He said yeah
Okay, if you'll commit yourself and surrender to everything he says now you can be a son
No, man, just let him be born
That he's born. I'll make him commit and surrender
When I so get to go get this garbage boy, he hadn't always been committed
Been a couple of times he wasn't real committed
Ah
Don't take him on to get committed though. I got a committer my house
But he didn't get committed to become my son he is born to become my son
You didn't get committed to become a Christian. He were born again to become a Christian
I gotta quit. I'm not through
The
One requirement for becoming God's sons found in John 1 12
Oh, it's that time to put all the verses about was full of as many as received him to them
Gave me power to become the sons of God even to them that believe in his name
But as you become a son the Bible said grow in grace in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ
2nd Peter 2 2 says desire the sense the America the word that you may grow there by
That's it
Well by grace are you saved through faith and
That not of yourselves it is a gift of God not of works lest any man should boast
How marvel that you're so soon to move from him
In the gospel of the grace of God to another gospel, which is not
Although we are an angel from heaven come on you preach some of the gospel let him be down
Let's stand together
All right, I'll preach about 20 30 minutes now about 20 minutes longer than usual I guess 25
I'm usually through about 10 after 12. I
Want you to be patient just a moment we usually baptize that to the Sunday morning service
Happy we're gonna be baptized
I've held you longer. I don't do this as a rule. So you ought to be able to bear with me this morning. I
Can understand a few visitors come in here this morning they used to go into church
Getting that 12 o'clock sharp starts at 11
Stops at 12 o'clock and the church gives up its dead and out they go
But
I came to a job this morning
To preach a sermon. I didn't come here to spend 20 minutes and a little sermonette to a bunch of Christian
That's when I'd smoke cigarettes. I
Come to preach to you if you don't like it you can lump it
You don't agree with it you can get right or die wrong
I
Say it's not what grandma believe I'm sorry grandma didn't know any better. It's not a matter what grandma believes matter what the Bible says
Amen
Lest you don't know it you ought to be dedicated and surrendered to God
Lock stock and barrel from the crown of your head to the sole of your feet and you ought to be a good Christian
You ought to be and I plead with you in view of God mercies that you do it same way Paul did
same way
Boy, let's buy our heads for prayer father in heaven
Thank you for the Pope for the way they listen happen to be patient the next few moments now in Jesus name
White heads about I'm not going to give a long invitation this one. I'm going to plead a long time
Because the sermon has not been of such that I want to give an invitation
But there's always some people here without Christ and someone need to join the church or someone need to be baptized
If you're trusting anything other than Jesus your salvation, I hate to tell you but your lost friend you're going to hell
I don't care how religious you are. I don't care how good you live if you're trusting anything
But Jesus for your salvation you're lost
He that believeth not on the Sun shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him
Now you must trust him. You must trust him completely
How many you will say to me doc cousin? I know sir
I know sir if I were to die today, I would go to heaven raise your hand. Let me see if I know it
I have trusted him. I know if I die I'll go to heaven
Put them down
How many will say to me doctors and I'm not sure sir if I die I'll go to heaven please pray for me raise your hand
Let me see it quickly. Anybody like that. Hurry anywhere quick now. Wait a moment
I'll wait a moment anywhere
God bless you. God bless you
If you're not sure that if you die you'll go to heaven step out and come down
Let us take the Bible and show you how the Bible how to be sure. Would you do it? Come now
If you're here and you need to come be baptized this morning step out and come down for baptism and come on now
We'll wait for you
If you're here
You'd like to join this church become a member here
Step out and come down say I want to join this church and serve the Lord here step out and come now
We'll wait for you while the choir sings. Come on
All right, I'll wait come on are there those who need to join here
Are there others who need to come and trust the Savior?
Are there others who need to come and obey Christ and receive believers baptism?