10/16/17 GOD'S PLAN TO SAVE MAN

10/16/17 GOD'S PLAN TO SAVE MAN

You cannot devise your own salvation or election.
You cannot earn your own salvation or election.
But you can...
NO NO NO, let me restate this...
YOU MUST work out your own salvation and YOU MUST make your calling and election sure,
BY WHAT YOU DO.

When we are saved, God enables us to WILL and TO DO His good pleasure.

Philippians 2:12-13
(12) Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
(13) For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

AND

2 Peter 1:10-11
(10) Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
(11) For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

BECAUSE JESUS TAUGHT

Matthew 22:13-14
(13) Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
(14) For many are called, but few are chosen.

AND JESUS TOLD WHO WOULD BE SAVED

Matthew 7:13-14
(13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
(14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

AND JESUS DESIGNATED HIS FAMILY

Matthew 12:48-50
(48) But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
(49) And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
(50) For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

DLG...
These passages blatantly contradict some errors taught by sinning religion.
1. The Bible clearly teaches that we can obey God.
2. The Bible clearly teaches that we are Divinely directed to work out our own salvation by seeking, following, obeying God
3. The Bible clearly teaches that we have a part in our election and must make our calling and election sure.
4. The Bible clearly teaches that God calls some who never get chosen.
5. The Bible clearly teaches that we must decide, and must be determined to enter salvation.
6. The Bible clearly teaches that only those who do the will of God are the family of God.

No matter how people twist and turn these passages, they still tell us, as believers, to work out our own salvation.
We are given a Divine responsibility, we have a part in our own salvation.
This is not a plea for "works salvation," but for a salvation that works.
I don't obey in order to earn salvation, I obey because I have salvation.
I don't do good works in order to get saved, I do good works because I am saved.

"I owe God nothing for what I've done to Him,
For on the cross, Christ made the sacrifice for sin.
I'll give my life to serve HIm faithfully,
I owe Him everything for what He's done for me"