Total Commitment
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Introduction
Introduction
Greeting
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
The idea of “total commitment” has taken a back seat in more modern times.
People today don’t seem to want to be committed totally to much of anything and that includes religion.
However, when one obeys the gospel they make an agreement with God to be totally committed to Him, having counted the cost of such, weighing the alternatives, and agreeing to God’s terms.
27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
The reality is, as we look at out first point...
The Lord Demands Total Commitment
The Lord Demands Total Commitment
The Lord has never minced words concerning such.
The Lord has never minced words concerning such.
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Summery
Summery
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Truths Concerning Total Commitment
Truths Concerning Total Commitment
Total commitment should expect adversity.
Total commitment should expect adversity.
12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
23 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
There is just too much sinfulness outside us, among us, and even in us to expect anything less.
If we are only committed to being in the church of Christ as long as we get our way we are not committed to Christ but to ourselves.
Total commitment understands who it’s serving.
Total commitment understands who it’s serving.
23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
If we are only committed to being in the church of Christ as long as we get our way we are not committed to Christ but to ourselves.
Our commitment to God understands we are here to serve God not our parents, spouses, elders, preachers, brothers, sisters, friends...
Now in serving God “whole heartily” we will minister to all those just mentioned but only as far as God demands.
God knows the difference between commitment and non-commitment.
God knows the difference between commitment and non-commitment.
You can trick people and make them “think” you are totally committed to God, but you can’t trick God.
1 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “ ‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
15 “ ‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17 For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
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God knows if you are “wholly committed to Him.
6 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.
Summery
Summery
The truth is you can “do” what is right according to the law of Christ and still not be committed to God whole heartily.
2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.
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Conclusion
Conclusion
The rewards of total commitment make any sacrifices you make well worth it.
“Rise above mediocrity, and follow the Lord with your whole heart.”
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.