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What is Missing?
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008
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What Is Missing?

When religious people make some kind of decision and claim to have "gotten" saved, and they realize that there is supposed to be a change in behavior associated with that claim, they stop reading their secular books, quit their bad habits, and resist the temptation to go to the places their church tells them are sinful, and force themselves to go to church regularly, at least for a while.

Their very salvation is based upon their doing something (their decision, exercising their faith, coming to the front) and so they feel the need to look saved by doing (or not doing) things. Eventually, after hearing "once saved, always saved" enough, they gradually begin to justify taking up all their original habits again. After all, you don't have to go to church to worship God, and the Bible doesn't say anything about going to the movies or smoking. Besides, I made that all-important decision and salvation is a once-for-all experience. And so, the sinner goes on convinced that he will spend eternity in heaven, because he "got" saved, when all the while he is running even faster toward hell than before he made this profession. How do I know all this? Because I am describing myself before The Lord Jesus Christ apprehended me.

What is missing in all this? Everything! Christ is missing, the true change of heart which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. What is missing? Being made a new creature in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). Religion is man centered from start to finish. Before and after salvation, it is what I do that determines my standing before God according to this fleshly gospel. Man's sinful heart has always devised many vices with which to satisfy his lustful flesh, but the gospel is not about abstaining from these or doing good things to outweigh these bad ones. This is the way that seemeth right unto a man, but which is the very road to hell.

The gospel is concerning Christ, who He is and what He did on behalf of sinners. Salvation comes when a sinner, by God-given faith, hears of Christ, falls in love with HIM and lays claim to His righteousness and sin-offering, by the grace of God. This same faith is that with which we daily walk before God. This faith always looks to and depends upon Christ and His merits.

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