Brother Bill Sunday School 9/30/12

Brother Bill Sunday School 9/30/12

The thought this Sunday morning is the thought of people having reservations that will keep them from getting saved.  The world has gotten so off and so crazy as far as thinking that everyone is saved and they have no definition of sin.  People leave God and still hold their testimony.  It seems more prevalent in this era than it ever was before.  My desire is to hold up the standard.

Mat 19:16  And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

We can do nothing in our own works to merit heaven.  We need to get saved and then have works.  After we are saved, if we don’t have works, then we cannot stay saved.  All of it will be of God.  Our walk, getting up in the morning is, “God I need you.  Help me to have your grace so that I can do what is pleasing to you.”  It will not be through your own strength.

Besides this if you are not obedient to the word of God, if you don’t have those works then you will lose your salvation.  The difference in this new Gospel dispensation of time is that in the Old Covenant they had to try to do it in their own strength.  In this New Dispensation of time we have God and His grace within us and we are given the power to do those things that were commanded.  We are still required to do them, only now we have God’s help to do them. 

If we fail to live according to the Word of God then we will lose our salvation and we will be lost.

Mat 19:17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Jesus was trying to get through to him right away, “None of us without God are good in our own selves.  All of us need to be saved.”  I tried to deal with a man at the sawmill that thought that he was a good person without any sin in his life.  All have sinned.  Everyone needs the savior.

Mat 19:18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

Mat 19:19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Jesus didn’t tell him all the commandments; He brought the thoughts of actions toward other people.  He didn’t bring out in these scriptures the thought, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all your heart,…” 

We see that this man felt that there was a missing link.

Mat 19:20  The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

Mat 19:21  Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

The word perfect here means complete.  If you want to have all the pieces to the puzzle and be where you want to be, “go sell and give to the poor and come follow me.”

Mat 19:22  But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

The things that will hinder people from getting saved are their great possession.  Brother Roy told of a man whose great possession was a tobacco pipe.  It doesn’t have to be very large to keep you from serving God if you refuse to let it go. 

It seems that as people come and go, you see people that appear to get saved and they will do certain things but there are things that as they would say, “I don’t see it that way.”  They come to a position where they stop.  They just go so far with following the Word. 

Did they know that that was a thing in their mind that they would not let that go when they initially tried to get saved?  When people have reservations, they come to God for salvation yet they have in their mind, “I’m not going to do this, or that.”  If they do this then they are not going to get it.

Sell that thou hast:  Does that mean that we need to sell our stuff and just give to the church?  No.  If that young man would have said, “I’d be willing to do that.”  Then God may not have required it of him.  Who knows?

There are some that know how to save money and there are others that do not know how to save.  What God wants is an attitude of heart, “God whatever I have is yours.”  We need to live a life of sacrifice. 

Mat 19:23  Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Mat 19:24  And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

The word, “hardly” means impracticably:  Incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means that are at hand.  If you hang onto your riches in your heart, if you hold with closed fists, what you have, then you are not going to be successful in this Christian walk.  You must hold everything you have with open hands.  This is with everything, not only your possessions but also with your life. 

It is easy to say, “Your will be done”, but what if God’s will is different than your will?  Probably Jesus was calling this young man to be His disciple.  If he had answered the call, then he would have been given everything.  When we die, all our possessions become someone else’s.

Luk 17:11  And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

Luk 17:12  And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:

Luk 17:13  And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

Luk 17:14  And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.

Luk 17:15  And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

Luk 17:16  And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

Luk 17:17  And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

Luk 17:18  There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

Luk 17:19  And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

Thy faith hath made thee whole.  The way the other nine did is the way that a lot of people do.  The leprosy of these men was their crisis.  Leprosy will kill a person.  It causes their members to fall off.  They all sought for healing, but one of them didn’t just past the crisis and then go on with the others, he wanted to come back and give something back to God. 

People need to get past coming to get salvation just to get past their crisis.  I remember one young man that was endeavoring to get saved because of his crisis.  It wasn’t because he was trying to get saved.  I tried to tell him, “Look, this crisis may not pass but at least you will have God and God will bless you and help you.”   

This was not what he wanted; he wanted things to be fixed. 

No reservation: I’m not going to try to hang onto anything of this world; I’ll serve God and leave all that sin behind.  Our attitude needs to be, “No matter what, I am going to go with you Lord.” 

Mat 19:24  And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

When you think in this light, if you hang onto what you have, it is just like a camel going through an eye of a needle.  You cannot hang onto your riches and get saved.  People will not be successful in their Christian walk until they die to themselves and their own life.