Sunday Re Cap (24th June 2007)

What Does This Mean?
by Daniel J.

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Question 1: How are we saved? Answer to that is found in Ephesians 2 :8&9

Summary
Salvation is a gift, you can’t work for it.
You receive this gift through faith.

Question 2 : Is faith the same as belief? Answer :No!

Parable 1 – The unmerciful Servant : Matthew 18:23-35
The king represents the Jesus and the servants represent believers. The first servants debt as an impossible debt to pay – it represents our sins against God. There is nothing we can do to repay it. We need the Kings forgiveness. The debt one servant owes another represents our offences against each other. God demands that we forgive one another! Its not an option. Failing which the unmerciful servant is thrown in to prison forever, representing eternal punishment.

Parable 2 – the parable of the Talents: Matthew 25: 14-30
The master in this parable represents Jesus and the servants represent believers. Jesus has deposited in each of us differing measures of gifts and talents. When he returns he expects us to give an account of what we did with it. In the parable the servant who did not use his gift and talents for the Kingdom was thrown in the outer darkness (hell)

Question 3: Can a believer be cast into hell?

Answer : Yes

Question 4: Under what condition can this happen?

Answer : Matthew 7:21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
James 2:14-26 states that faith without deeds is dead. The deeds spoken of here is not just doing just anything but deeds that are inspired by faith and done in obedience to God.

In short ‘ faith without obedience is dead’
We need to look at our lives and ask ourselves if we truly have faith because true faith will prove itself through works of obedience.
It’s not too late. We can make things right in our life today. We can’t change the past but we can change the future. Gods love for us is unconditional and its His desire that none should perish.

Church you and I need to put our faith into action and desire obedience in our lives.