Sermon - Some Things I Want You To Know, by James W. Bryant, 2019

NOTHING
by James W. Bryant
05/14/2022

Don't allow a man nor an entire church organization to prevent you from living free in the Lord. If you've been saved there is no reason for you to live in fear over the possibility of maintaining or losing our salvation.

At 53-years old, I haven't met a one in this life who is worthy for heaven. Although I have known a few who would have you to believe they were. I have found narcissism and or control often being two of the main reasons for such twisted deception. Ignorance too, has and does play a part for some.

There are those who have simply been birthed into this belief and teaching that have found it hard to accept truth and understanding and walk away.

But thank God Jesus has made a way! Even if and when you're struggling with your relationship with the Lord, you're still his. Even when you might be having a moment when you're not illustrating such a good Christian example, you're still His. You've been born unto His family, and you simply cannot be unborn.

A many of sermons have been preached on the prodigal and how he wandered from home. You'll remember him having been down in the pig's pen and would come to himself and return home. But the greatest lesson here to be learned is the fact that his daddy met him with open arms. The good Father stands waiting for us too when we veer off course, waits for us to return from our disobedience maybe, but not a return to salvation. If this young man had not returned, nothing was going to change the fact that the prodigal was the father's son, and likewise, nothing was going to change the fact that the Father was the young man's dad. NOTHING could be done to change that, nothing.

So it is with us, if we are one of God's saved children, nothing can be done to change that, nothing. Might you allow me to say that one more time? NOTHING can be done to change one of God's saved children where they can be unsaved, nothing. Even where sin may abound in the Christian's life, His amazing grace will much more abound!

If you ever have, don't ever again think you can live good enough to get your salvation, and or fail bad enough to lose it. Salvation comes through faith, and faith alone in Christ Jesus. The best of any Christian I've ever known has and continues to sin. It is only the proud or deceitful Christian who says not. And if a man says he sins not, he is a liar, and that too itself is a sin.

Sin's measure varies, and indeed there will be penalties to be paid. The greater or less the sin, very possibly the greater or less the penalty. Of course, we are not the judge of that, God is. But rest assured, all do sin, both the saved and the not saved. The saved man however is covered by the blood of Jesus for his eternal well-being, the man that has not been saved isn't.

There are a lot of religious folks who won't make it to heaven. Some will be saying, "But Lord, we prophesied in your name? And in thy name have cast out many devils? And in thy name did many wonderful works?" But God says he will then profess unto them, "I NEVER knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." The Lord is not talking about saved folks here. The Lord is talking here about people he has never known, those who have never been saved.

While you're loving the Lord, do joy in your salvation, it is eternally secured! As Paul said, "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were -SEALED- with that holy Spirit of promise!"
If we are not trusting in Jesus and him alone to atone for our sins, that would mean we are believing in something more or less than him. I say, let's make sure we are indeed doing just that, trusting in him and absolutely nothing of ourselves. When we can affirm we are doing that, we will indeed have nothing more left to fear.

Never, never let anyone take your joy, the saint of God is eternally secured!! Don't ever allow anyone or any organization to tell you and your family any different from this solid truth of God's word. And don't let anyone sell you on any one scripture they may have twisted up in order to align with such a view. Investigate them and the said scripture they may have slanted. Educate yourselves for truth and equally a good understanding of a truth anyone might be misrepresenting.

If you are family, friends with such a person, and or part of such an organization that hasn't come to truth's understanding, or perhaps may be hiding truth's understanding, help them if you can. But if once you have made the effort and determine you cannot help them with this truth, save your own family and walk, kicking the dust off from your shoes. The peace of God is too important to you and your family to continue in or to be a part of such a false teaching.

God does not desire for you nor any of his children to live in fear of losing their salvation, but rather in its confidence and in its security. Nothing, Nothing can separate the saved from His love. And again I say, nothing!