Last evening Pastor Weber began a series of messages on the life of Abraham. Our predominate subject last night was how Abraham’s new relationship with God was coupled with an uprooting of his relationship with this world. I fully agree with Pastor Weber that this is a pattern of every one’s relationship with God. There is an evil idea in our popular Christian culture that fails to make this important observation. It is the idea that what is solely at issue is what we popularly call an individual’s “salvation”. It is the attempt to isolate this rescue from the penalty of sin as the sole or major issue at hand. It fails to make the observation that our “salvation” is a calling, consider this quote from Peter:
2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
When an individual is saved, he is redeemed and he is no longer “self-employed”.
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
When we are saved we are bought with a price, freed from the shackles of sin and employed in a new purpose to both serve and to glorify God in our “bodies and our spirits which are His”. This is a huge issue and it seems to me that it takes a lifetime to begin to comprehend it. To fail to comprehend it will result in a lifetime of shameful loss. I look forward to the coming messages that Pastor Weber will share with us, for our good and profit.
