This Sunday’s sermon will call for us to live trusting and obedient lives as we follow our Lord. Jesus challenges the disciples, “And why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord’, and do not do what I say?” (Luke 6:46). It is a question that challenges us to examine our spiritual walk concerning trusting obedience.
Trusting Jesus as one’s personal Savior and yet feeling no sense of responsibility to be obedient to Him as Lord divulges a defective faith. On the other hand, obeying Jesus as Lord in an attempt to earn one’s salvation but neglect to trust Him as Savior is a perverted and ineffectual faith (it’s not faith at all). The right way to live as a Christian is to trust the work of Jesus on the cross to save you by His redeeming blood and allow that sacrificial love of Jesus to move you to be an obedient disciple. Gratitude for grace becomes a motivating factor.
Be sure to learn more this Sunday as we study out this important biblical subject. Read Titus 3:1-8 and listen to the old song entitled Trust and Obey by David Wesley.
Titus 3:1-8
Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed, to slander no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing every consideration for all people. For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we did in righteousness, but in accordance with His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He richly poured out upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This statement is trustworthy; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and beneficial for people.