My lifegroup rocked my socks off Thursday, this is my verbal debrief from that night:
The book we are reading is John McCarthur’s “The Vanishing Conscience”
The chapter this week was about sanctification. We got on a very interesting point of sanctification that drew me to this conclusion
Everyone wants to hear at the end of their life “well done my good and faithful servant”. This coming from Matthew 25:21 with the Parable of the talents. The correlation of the Parable to your journey of your spiritual life (sanctification) This is the charge!! A call to action!!
After all the definition of servant is: One who expresses submission, recognizance, or debt to another. Following hard after Christ.
We start our journey with believing. Believe def: To accept as true or real
John 3:16
16“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. in
If you accept it or believe it as true then we should live it out.
Why is it then we may end up hearing more “well done my good and faithful believer”?
We don’t seem to get past the point of believing into servant hood.
Matthew 7:21,23
21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
Then my next question is, is believing enough?
So lastly there is the whole:
Faith without works is dead vs. Works without faith is dead also
We blurred the lines tonight saying there is no good works, there is following Christ and living life to what He has called and the opposite; which would be bad works. Sounds lame, but it sounds lame to call it good works when it is supposed to be just “WHAT” you do. Normal everyday stuff that makes a difference. It can be big it can be small, but it is what God has called us to be.
Anyways, probably more of my rambling, but it’s on my heart and I felt the need to share it, at least get it in writing off my mind tonight.
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