All to Jesus - Part 2 — Compilations

Total Surrender and the Cost of Holiness

For instance where he's going to buy his new home. What vocation he's going to study for as a student. Where he's going to go next year on vacation. How he's actually going to spend his money. Who's really going to run the church that he goes to.

All this is embraced in his salvation and. Nothing less than that of course. Will do anything less than that. Short changes Jesus Christ and keeps him of that for which his blood was shed.

God is looking for men and women who will be totally totally totally sold out to him. You'll get stoned by your critics. You'll be lonely. I think the last time I went to my office now dear Paul was then he was in the chair there.

And he said daddy and realize this if you're going to walk in holiness We're going to be lonely people. I don't believe that any man is greater than his prayer life. I don't believe that any church is stronger than his prayer life.

From God-Centered Worship to Self-Centered Religion

It was a day when men sang holy holy holy and all worship the king and they talked Objectively about the greatness of God and we backslid into That gutter where we're still are where everything's about I.

I'm so happy. I'm so blessed. I'm so nice I'm so good. I'm I I always I Will a difference between heaven and hell there's a difference between God and I keep that in mind always. And our churches I am confident them across this land of ours are filled with people that are going to miss Salvation miss heaven by 18 inches because they have their salvation up here in an intellectual Comprehension rather than down here in a spiritual experience and the presence of the Son of God right here friend.

Spiritual Warfare Without Spiritual Power

This the forces of evil are crowding on full pressure today and there's a spiritual warfare Which will never cease until time runs out and the Church of Jesus Christ Has got all the equipment all the buildings all the power.

All the methods all the theory and all the technique but no power to move men to God. I say that to my own heart ain't so well equipped. But so lacking in endearment for this each one of us is personally responsible.

Accepting Christ Completely and Exclusively

Result is they die all around us and we say they backslid they never backslid because they never were regenerated to start with. To accept him is to accept him With a revolutionary acceptance. It's the septic accept him completely all of him to all of me.

It's to accept him Exclusively and not any other hope but him he alone is my hope. It's to accept his friends as my friends his enemies as my enemies his ways as my ways his rejection is my rejection.

The cross is my cross. His life is my life and his glorious future is my glorious future. That's what it means to be a Christian and my dear friends. It's worth everything and if we all had to believe on Christ tonight and die tomorrow We'd spend one eternity thanking God with Tender affection that he allowed it to happen.

Obedience, Consequences, and the Cross

This is something you take up deliberately. It is obedience to Christ. It is doing what the Lord commands you to do and then taking the consequences and that the consequences mean across then take the cross.

And Paul says that's what the world is. To me it's a system of corruption and rottenness and vileness. It's antichrist from the world go. Is the world crucified to you tonight? Or does it fascinate you?

Salvation as Christ’s Indwelling Rule

The Lord Jesus did not shed his blood so that you could have a release from a guilt complex. So that you might escape the punitive consequence of your sin. The Lord Jesus died upon the cross. Not just to get you out of hell and into heaven.

He died upon the cross to get God out of heaven into you. And the measure in which you are saved is the measure which God out of heaven in you is in function. Actually calling the shots actually controlling what you do with your hands.

Actually controlling where you go with your feet. Actually controlling what you say with your lips actually controlling what you think with your mind actually controlling the decisions that you make. That is the measure what you're saying.

Rejecting False Assurance and Mere Religious Conformity

So don't kid yourself. That because 10 years or 15 years ago you walk down the aisle or raise your hand and you've been paying your time. You've been through the time. Don't fancy that constitutes your salvation.

There are hundreds of thousands Of men and women who troop to church every Sunday who've gone through all of that and they're not even regenerate. They're unsaved believers. They're conforming to denominational patterns that have become a substitute for a personal spiritual relationship to Jesus Christ and they know nothing nothing really of the life that is the birthright of the newborn and They're going to be some tragic surprises.

The Forgiving Christ and Salvation from Hell

In the day the dust has settled the first group that I am.

Measuring is not because of of its size or its priority but simply because of the habit of my thinking and. Therefore I give it to you first. The first group are those people that have met the forgiving Christ.

They discovered their sin through some means or another. They realized they'd been caught and they didn't know what to do about it. They were told that they were a hell of a hell. They weren't so sure but they figured they'd better be on the safe side.

So someone said except Jesus their primary reason for accepting him was to be inured and immunized against hell. They wanted to have an insurance policy. And so their primary concern in Christ is that he fulfilled what they've accepted him for.

They are they were so grateful when they learned that Jesus Christ had died for them that they wouldn't have to die. As well put it in more colloquial terms. They were so happy when they learned that Jesus had taken the rap for them.

If I may express it that way they were so happy that he died. They have mistaken their pleasure at the fact he suffered for them as being the witness of the Spirit. But their whole concern of about Christ is that they should be protected from suffering and from punishment.

They've only met the forgiving Christ and they've never gone beyond that when they want to see someone saved. Actually what they want is to see. Someone else come to the place that if they die, they won't be go to hell when they speak of revival.

What they mean is to have their heart feel the same joy that they felt when they first came. There's an upper limit to their interest in the church and in Christianity and it all relates to them. They have met the forgiving Christ.

The Utilitarian Christ

There's a second group. These are the people that have met the utilitarian Christ. They were in great need and they prayed and when.