Jesus has always had admirers. It’s not hard to understand why. There was all that healing and demon-casting-out. Way better than Blue Cross - and ESPECIALLY better than so-called Obamacare - no premiums to pay! Then there was His tendency to poke holes in the egos of stuffy religious people. We all love it when the pretentious are taken down a peg. And of course, He was Super Caterer, able to feed whole multitudes with a single lunch.
So they gladly came and listened. Especially for the dinner gong. But Jesus didn’t come to be the Proprietor of the Free Lunch Counter.
Matt 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord! ’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.
In our zeal to get the truth across that “It doesn’t matter what you’ve DONE, you can be saved,” we let some folks get the idea, “It doesn’t matter what you DO after you’re saved.” We need to remind ourselves that what we do after we come to Christ is vital, if we want to be found in Him.
James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Now before you go off thinking I’ve given up my Grace Card and am ready to preach salvation by works, let me put it this way. You neither “get saved” nor “keep saved” on your own, for without Him we can do nothing. But a lot of admirers of Jesus didn’t stick with Jesus.
John 6:66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
But those who did stick changed the world.
Don’t be a “fan” of Jesus, be a Follower, and hold firm in the faith till the End.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
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