Lesson 4239

 (Lesson 4239)(08-30-23) Mark 8:34-38

    “ And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” 

    In today’s quote, Jesus made it crystal clear that in order to achieve eternal salvation from sin, one’s faith in Him must be total and absolute.

    If one’s faith is in the physical works he/she might do, or in rituals like water baptism etc., that one is doomed to eternal punishment in hell. 

    As Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.”

    Those who claim to have faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, yet “hold to the one” erroneous contention that water baptism remits sin, must also believe that the blood of Jesus, on it’s own, does not have the power to “justify” sin, and that they must help Jesus out by washing away thier own sins with water.~