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Introduction:
In the Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus said these very important words:
In this passage, Jesus speaks regarding the difference between genuine faith and false false.
Genuine faith does not have anything to do with what a person claims, if that claim is contradicted by their life.
Genuine faith is revealed in a life that is patterned by doing to the will of God.
I did not say that there was sinless perfect there, by there is a life that is patterned by a habitual desire and fulfillment of God’s will.
But the Church today is permeated with teaching that contradicts the very basic principles of what the Word of God says is involved in true salvation.
In his book, So Great Salvation, Charles Ryrie makes the following claim:
Repentance is a change of mind about Christ ( SGS 96, 99).2
In the context of the gospel invitation, repentance is just a synonym for faith ( SGS 97–99).
No turning from sin is required for salvation ( SGS 99).
The whole of salvation, including faith, is a gift of God ( SGS 96).
But faith might not last.
A true Christian can completely cease believing ( SGS 141).
Saving faith is simply being convinced or giving credence to the truth of the gospel ( SGS 156).
It is confidence that Christ can remove guilt and give eternal life, not a personal commitment to Him ( SGS 119).
Some spiritual fruit is inevitable in every Christian’s experience.
The fruit, however, might not be visible to others ( SGS 45).
Christians can even lapse into a state of permanent spiritual barrenness ( SGS 53–54).
Only the judicial aspects of salvation—such as justification, adoption, imputed righteousness, and positional sanctification—are guaranteed for believers in this life ( SGS 150–52).
Practical sanctification and growth in grace require a postconversion act of dedication.3
Submission to Christ’s supreme authority as Lord is not germane to the saving transaction ( SGS 71–76).
Neither dedication nor willingness to be dedicated to Christ are issues in salvation ( SGS 74).
The news that Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead is the complete gospel.
Nothing else must be believed for salvation ( SGS 40–41).
Christians may fall into a state of lifelong carnality.
A whole category of “carnal Christians”—born-again people who continuously live like the unsaved—exists in the church ( SGS 31, 59–66).
Disobedience and prolonged sin are no reason to doubt the reality of one’s faith ( SGS 48).
A believer may utterly forsake Christ and come to the point of not believing.
God has guaranteed that He will not disown those who thus abandon the faith ( SGS 141).
Those who have once believed are secure forever, even if they turn away ( SGS 143).
Although, in some individuals attempt to make salvation “market friendly” they will adopt some obscure and down-right unBiblical thoughts.
In his book, Absolutely Free!, Zane Hodges makes the following affirmations:
Repentance is not essential to the gospel message.
In no sense is repentance related to saving faith ( AF 144–46).4
Faith is a human act, not a gift from God ( AF 219).
It occurs in a decisive moment but does not necessarily continue ( AF xiv, 107).
True faith can be subverted, be overthrown, collapse, or even turn to unbelief ( AF 111).
To “believe” unto salvation is to believe the facts of the gospel ( AF 37–39).
“Trusting Jesus” means believing the “saving facts” about Him ( AF 39), and to believe those facts is to appropriate the gift of eternal life ( AF 40).
Those who add any suggestion of commitment have departed from the New Testament idea of salvation ( AF 27).
Spiritual fruit is not guaranteed in the Christian life ( AF 73–75, 119).
Some Christians spend their lives in a barren wasteland of defeat, confusion, and every kind of evil ( AF 119–25).
Heaven is guaranteed to believers ( AF 112) but Christian victory is not ( AF 118–19).
One could even say “the saved” still need salvation ( AF 195–99).
Christ offers a whole range of postconversion deliverance experiences to supply what Christians lack ( AF 196).
But these other “salvations” all require the addition of human works, such as obedience, submission, and confession of Jesus as Lord ( AF 74, 119, 124–25, 196).
Thus God is dependent to some degree on human effort in achieving deliverance from sin in this life ( AF 220).
Submission is not in any sense a condition for eternal life ( AF 172).
“Calling on the Lord” means appealing to Him, not submitting to Him ( AF 193–95).
Nothing guarantees that a true Christian will love God ( AF 130–31).
Salvation does not necessarily even place the sinner in a right relationship of harmonious fellowship with God ( AF 145–60).
If people are sure they believe, their faith must be genuine ( AF 31).
All who claim Christ by faith as Savior—even those involved in serious or prolonged sin—should be assured that they belong to God come what may ( AF 32, 93–95).
It is dangerous and destructive to question the salvation of professing Christians ( AF 18–19, 91–99).
The New Testament writers never questioned the reality of their readers’ faith ( AF 98).
It is possible to experience a moment of faith that guarantees heaven for eternity ( AF 107), then to turn away permanently and live a life that is utterly barren of any spiritual fruit ( AF 118–19).
Genuine believers might even cease to name the name of Christ or confess Christianity ( AF 111).
What about:
And the point is that when someone is in Jesus Christ, there will still be a struggle with sin (as illustrated by Paul’s own testimony is ), but there will be newness of life.
And I turn your attention to these things because that is exactly what the Apostle John records for us regarding the New Heaven and the New Earth.
He concludes his record of of the appearance of the New Heaven and the New Earth by explaining who are the characters of the New Heaven and the New Earth and who are the Cast Outs of the New Heaven and the New Earth.
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The Coming of the New Heaven and the New Earth (vs. 1)
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The Capital of the New Heaven and the New Earth (vs.
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The Companion of the New Heaven and the New Earth (vs. 3)
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The Changes of the New Heaven and the New Earth (vs.
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The Characters of the New Heaven and the New Earth (vs.
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Nestled within this passage on the New Heaven and the New Earth, is an explanation of the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
This great voice from heaven that has been speaking is now explaining to John, and to us, who will actually reside in the New Heaven and the New Earth and who will not, in the coming verse.
Christ begins in the middle to end of verse 6 and goes on into verse 7 to describe the people that will reside in this new dwelling.
And He breaks it down into three distinct designations regarding salvation; and they are all found in the text and the marks of the one who resides in this holy place are very clear.
A. Humbly
The initial designation of the one who resides in this holy place is humility.
The initial designation of the one that will reside in this holy place is the huni
Jesus says that He will give (and the understanding of item that is given is water) to the one that is thirsty.
But what exactly is Christ talking about here.
This beautiful expression is a figure of speech that represents the sense of a spiritual need.
In this final invitation, the Lord Jesus says that He will give spiritual water to anyone that will sense their need of spiritual thirst.
It is the same way as saying that the Lord Jesus Christ will give spiritual life to all the recognize that they did it and turn to Him as the only source of that life.
When someone humbly comes knowing they have a need, they will find the Savior with the water of life ready to give it.
Salvation is not arbitrary, but it is available to all of those that will sense their spiritual need.
It is for these people that our Lord spoke on the Sermon on the Mount.
Jesus says that Happy are those people who recognize their spiritual need and turn to Christ, for they shall find Him to be the perfect Savior and the only one that can satisfy the longings of their soul.
I find it very fitting that they final call that the Lord gives is also His first call.
When our Lord began His ministry He preached that the persons who see their need will be satisfied and as we come near the end of the Revelation, we find the same wording and the same invitation.
Those who will be redeemed and enter heaven are those who are dissatisfied with their hopeless, lost condition and crave God’s righteousness with every part of their being.
The Promise to those who will recognize their need and come is that they will find refreshment for their thirsty souls.
Those that try and come with their own feelings of self worth and self righteousness will not be given the satisfying refreshment of the water from God’s spring.
But only those persons that come with humility.
Just how far away from God did he stand?
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