We are better together

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “We are better together”
 
Salvation is a personal experience but it is then lived out in community. The forgiveness of your sins is a personal transaction between you and Jesus. But once you have been saved you are to go forward in life, as a saved individual, living, worshiping, serving, and growing in a community of other saved individuals.
 
The Christian life is not to be lived in isolation from other believers. It certainly cannot be lived well without the help of other Christians. In his great little book, “The Doctrine of Salvation” Dr. Darrell Robinson includes an entire chapter on the role the church plays in the life of the saved individual. He writes, “The life of one who is saved cannot be lived in isolation … the new creation is both individual and corporate … Secret discipleship is no discipleship at all. It is unthinkable that one should experience the saving, resurrection love and power of Christ without making this faith known through public profession and church membership.”
 
In Proverbs 27:17 King Solomon reminds us that just as iron sharpens iron, so does one person sharpen another. In other words, we help each other to be our best for Jesus. We help each other to learn and grow. We support one another, encourage each other, and help to carry each other’s burdens. That’s life in a good church.
 
We also serve together. Robinson goes on, “The most exciting adventure on earth is to be part of a dynamic local church, fulfilling the mission of Christ.” And, “As a part of a local church the individual Christian is more fruitful in fulfilling the mission of Christ. The principle of synergism is a reality in the church. Much that could never be accomplished by an individual Christian’s effort can be done by the body as it moves on mission together.”
 
We are better together than we are alone. You need your church and your church needs you.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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It’s a matter of submission

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.” John 15:5 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “It’s a matter of submission”
 
In his great little book, “The Doctrine of Salvation,” Dr. Darrell Robinson included a chapter with the title “Salvation and Daily Living.” He writes, “The new life is a process of growing and maturing into the likeness of Christ. At conversion His life is within us, but His likeness is not within us. Sin still has power over the believer, but sin’s power is potentially broken through Christ’s death and resurrection. Victory belongs to the Christian as she appropriates by faith all that is hers in Christ.”
 
His life is in us, but His likeness is not. All that there is of Jesus is ours at the moment of conversion by means of His Holy Spirit living in our heart. But His likeness in us becomes more prominent over time, a little at a time, as we learn to be more like Him and less like us. It’s a matter of submission. I learn to surrender my will for His in all things. I learn to think like Him, talk like Him, and act like Him. As that happens, I become more like Him and less like me.
 
The way Jesus explained this important truth was by using the illustration of a grapevine and the branches that grow off it (John 15:5). The grapevine lives its life through the branches and it produces its fruit through those branches. The life of the vine flows through the branches and the fruit of the vine is produced through the branches. As long as the branch stays attached to the vine, it will produce the fruit of the vine. Independent of the vine, the branch can do nothing.
 
In the same manner, Jesus is the vine and we are His branches. His life flows through us and He produces His fruit through our lives. As long as we stay attached and fully submitted to Him, His life will flow in us and through us, and His fruit will be produced through us. But this only works if we stay attached and fully submitted to Him. If we do, over time, more and more of His fruit is produced through our lives and we, the branch, are seen as being one with the vine.
 
But it is His fruit, not ours. The fruit (works) is what Jesus would produce if He were here on the earth in the flesh and bones body that you are walking around in. It is His Spirit in you, and working through you, that is producing His fruit. Apart from Him, we can do nothing.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim 
 
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You will discover that it did matter

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there you heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “You will discover that it did matter”
 
So, what could Jesus have meant when He urged us to store up treasure in heaven? He certainly seems to be implying that how we live now matters later. Our behaviors on earth have implications for our eternity in heaven.
 
There are many passages that teach about varying degrees of rewards in heaven. Matthew 6:19-21 is one of them. In Matthew 5:12 Jesus urged His listeners to faithful living now and as a result, “great is your reward in heaven.” In Matthew 16:27 Jesus said that He will reward each one for what they have done. Matthew 25:31-46 is the iconic passage where Jesus describes the day when those followers of His who had been kind, compassionate, and merciful in this lifetime will be commended and rewarded for having done so, and those who were indifferent to the suffering of others will be called out for it. And in 2 Corinthians 5:10 the Apostle Paul reminds us that one day we will all stand before God and be held accountable for the things we did in this lifetime, both good and bad.
 
My point is that there is are many passages in the Bible which teach about varying degrees of reward in heaven based upon how we conducted ourselves on earth. I have mentioned only a few of them. Every act of worship, prayer, Bible study, good stewardship, and service to others contribute to our spiritual growth now, and they have implications for eternity in heaven. In the book “The Doctrine of Salvation,” Dr. Darrell Robinson uses this illustration to make that point (I’m paraphrasing):
 
“When we get to heaven, each believer in Christ will enjoy heaven to their maximum capacity for spiritual appreciation and enjoyment. But we will not all have the same capacity. One believer, having lived a faithful life of spiritual growth and service, may get to heaven with the capacity of a fifty-gallon drum. Another, having been much less faithful, may get to heaven with the capacity of a one-gallon container. Each will be filled to overflowing and enjoying heaven to their maximum capacity, but they will have very different capacities.”
 
When we get to heaven, we will discover that what the Bible teaches about the importance of faithful living and spiritual growth in this lifetime was true after all. We will discover that it really did matter.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim   
 
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Flowing and growing

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 1:6 (NIV)
 
Our thought for today: “Flowing and growing”
 
In 1992 Dr. Darrell Robinson published a little book that has become a classic in the Southern Baptist world. The title is “The Doctrine of Salvation. “For more than thirty years it has been required reading in many Southern Baptist college and seminary classes. It is also used in various study programs for lay people, and by preachers and teachers as source material for Bible studies.
 
In clear and easy to understand terms Dr. Robinson explains the doctrine of salvation from A-Z – from Holy Spirit conviction, to new birth, to a lifetime of spiritual growth, and finally to eternal rewards in heaven. It’s all there.
 
I love the illustration he used to explain the small beginnings of our spirituality, followed by the long winding path God takes us along in life as we grow and increase in spiritual stature, finally arriving in heaven to a dramatic conclusion:
 
“God continues to work in the believer so we grow to be more like Christ until He finally glorifies us in heaven. His work in us is much like the flow of the mighty Mississippi River. Its source is a small trickling stream near the Great Lakes. It becomes a mighty river, emptying its waters in the Gulf of Mexico. It does not move in a straight line from its source to its mouth. Instead, it winds and curves around mountains and barriers until it makes its way to its destination. God moves in our lives, working in all things for good to accomplish His purpose. He works through the good and the bad; He works through the triumphs and the trials in our lives to make us like Christ.”
 
If you are doing this right – if you are living the Christian life well and if you are doing your part in this process of progressive sanctification by cooperating with the work of the Holy Spirit in your life, you will ultimately arrive in heaven like a mighty flowing river of spiritual maturity. That’s the word picture Dr. Robinson was creating for us and it is the truth Paul was teaching in Philippians 1:6 (above). God began a good work in you at the time of your salvation. You were just a spiritual baby then but you were ready to grow. Throughout your life you learn, you grow stronger, you grow in spiritual stature, until the day you arrive in heaven as the person you will be for eternity (more about this tomorrow).
 
Placing your faith in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins is the most important event in your life. That’s the beginning, and nothing is more important than that. The second most important event in your life is growing in spiritual maturity. Nothing else in life is more important than salvation and spiritual growth because those two spiritual realities determine eternity for you.
 
Since this is so important, there is much more that needs to be said about this business of progressive sanctification and therefore we will continue the discussion into the new month.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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Victory over the giants

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty … for the battle is the Lord’s …” 1 Samuel 17:45; 47 (NIV)
 
Our thought for today: “Victory over the giants”
 
This morning I want to borrow from the closing illustration in my sermon at Oak Hill Baptist Church last Sunday. The sermon was from Romans chapter eight and pertained to living victoriously in Christ despite the many trials and challenges we face in life. But the closing illustration was based upon the scene in 1 Samuel chapter 17 where David faced and defeated the giant, Goliath. If you missed that sermon and would like to watch it, you can do so on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville.
 
We all must face and deal with our own giants in life. Your giant probably isn’t named Goliath. It might be called unemployment, or sickness, or wayward child, or death of a loved one, or any number of other common but painful life issues. Life is full of giants that must be faced.
 
The key to dealing effectively with our giants is to do what David did. First, commit the battle to the Lord. Recognize that God is sovereign over all the situations of your life and despite how big your giant might seem, God is bigger. Second, trust in the promises of God. He is the all-powerful God of the universe. He is the One who created everything from nothing; the One who parted the Red Sea; the One who raised Jesus from the dead. (Again, last Sunday’s sermon from Romans chapter eight addressed this truth in depth.) Claim the promises of God. Stand on them. Allow those promises and your faith in Him to be the firm foundation upon which you stand as you face your giants.
 
Then go forward into the battle, engaging the giant with boldness and confidence. Not because you trust in yourself, but because you trust in God. Remember, the battle belongs to the Lord, and your desire is to simply honor Him and bring glory to Him in the way that you deal with your giants (whoever and whatever they may be).
 
Our ability to face our giants in this manner increases as we grow in spiritual maturity. This is one of the results of progressive sanctification – we become increasingly aware of the truth that the battle truly is the Lord’s and our giants cannot stand against Him. We learn this from experience and that experience produces spiritual growth in us. We are better, stronger, bolder, and more confident because we have faced our giants with the help of the Lord.
 
You can have victory over the giants you are facing today. Just remember that the battle is the Lord’s not yours.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim 
 
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Just get started

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.” Proverbs 14:23 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “Just get started”
 
In yesterday’s devotional I encouraged us to not settle for “good-enough,” and I referred to the classic leadership book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins. Well, here’s another encouraging thought for us, and this one comes from the great Christian writer G.K. Chesterton from the late 1800s. Chesterton was a large man with a big bushy mustache and a fun, engaging personality. He was known for his sharp wit and his good humor. He was funny, blunt, convicting, and challenging, all at the same time.
 
He once said something about procrastination that at first blush seems a bit confusing. We can find ourselves scratching our heads and wondering what in the world Chesterton means. But upon further reflection, we realize there is great wisdom in it. Chesterton said, “If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.”
 
Say what? If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly? Does that mean it’s okay to do things badly? And how does that square with what we learned from Jim Collins about not being content with mediocrity or simply being “good-enough?”
 
Actually, it’s all part of the same mindset. Yes, we want to be our best and to never settle for mediocrity. But we also don’t want to set the bar so high right out of the gate that it is intimidating to the point that we’re afraid to even attempt the thing. The point Chesterton was making was that if a thing is worth being done, then do it. Just do it to the best of your ability. Even if your initial efforts are not very good, so what? If it’s a worthwhile thing, then doing it badly is better than not doing it at all. If you’re making an effort, you can reasonably expect to get progressively better at it as you continue doing it. That’s better than not doing the thing at all.
 
With respect to progressive sanctification and the process of transformation the Holy Spirit wants to take you through – just get started. You’re not going to instantly be some kind of super-saint. So what? If you are a little better today than you were yesterday, then you have made progress. So, pray – even if you pray badly, just pray. Read your Bible – even if you don’t understand a lot of it, read it anyway. Go to church – even if the preacher does have more hair in his nose than on his head and he’s a little odd in his mannerisms, go anyway.
 
You get the point. Just get started. It’s better to do it poorly than to not do it at all. Your praying, understanding, acts of service to others, and all the rest, will all get better with time. (The preacher I’m not so sure about, but the rest of the stuff will get better.) So, don’t procrastinate. Just get started.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim  
 
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Don’t settle for “good-enough”

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:5-8 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “Don’t settle for good-enough”
 
In 2 Peter 1:5-8 the Apostle Peter was essentially describing the ongoing process of progressive sanctification. He was calling his readers to develop daily habits of spiritual discipline that would result in the Holy Spirit slowly transforming them into a better reflection of Jesus. Peter reiterated that call a couple of chapters later when he wrote in 2 Peter 3:18, “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” There it is again, “grow,” “change,” “transform,” and become better than you have been.
 
In 1989, while I was still serving as a Naval Officer, I went to graduate school at night in my off-duty hours to earn a Master of Science degree in curriculum development for business. The idea was for the curriculum developer to go into an industrial or business setting that was not producing acceptable results. The developer would then meet with the leadership team to determine what the best-case scenario would be. In other words, “In a perfect world, what would be the ideal outcome that you would like to have?” Once that ideal was identified we then knew what the goal was. The next step was to work with the subject matter experts to develop training for the organization that would take them from where they were, and get them progressively closer to where they needed to be.
 
Could we say it was progressive sanctification for business? Perhaps. But that is exactly what the Holy Spirit does with us. He identifies where we’re at, compares it to where we need to be, and then starts walking us through a process that is designed to take us from where we are and move us closer and closer to where we should be.
 
The business leadership guru Jim Collins once wrote a book about this that was an international best-seller. It was called “Good to Great” and it was based on the premise that too many businesses and individuals settle for just being good when they could be great. We decide that what we are and where we are is good-enough. But that then keeps us from ever moving forward to becoming what we could be.
 
Too many Christians are simply good when they could be great. The Holy Spirit wants you to be great in your spiritual maturity. He doesn’t want us to settle for “good-enough.” You are capable of much more. In terms of your spiritual development, you may be good, but you could be great. I encourage you not to settle for good-enough.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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Live until you die

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” 2 Corinthians 4:16 (NIV)
 
Our thought for today: “Live until you die”
 
So, I have some “old man issues” going on. Nothing serious. They’re all minor. But I had two doctor’s appointments in the same day the other day, and I’m currently wearing a knee brace for the first time in my life. There’s other stuff too. Overall, I think I’m pretty healthy, but I’m about to turn seventy and the old body is showing some signs of wear and tear.
 
I often hear people complain about getting older, but I usually try to avoid doing that myself. I’m grateful to have lived long enough to get old. Many never get the chance. But if you do live long enough, you will get old and your body will wear out. As a matter of good stewardship, we should do our best to take good care of the body God has given us so that we can continue to use it for His kingdom-building purposes for as long as possible. But still, if you live long enough you will get old and your body will wear out.  
 
However, on the flip side, as Paul described in 2 Corinthians 4:16, if you are doing this Christian life right then the older you get the stronger and healthier you will be spiritually. As your physical body withers and declines, your spirit gets bigger, better, stronger, healthier. As your outer person is wasting away, your inward person is being renewed day by day, getting ever-stronger.
 
Far too often Christians use physical decline as an excuse for withdrawing from ministry, and sometimes from church altogether. But that shouldn’t be. Physical changes in your mortal body may necessitate a change in the kinds of ministry activities you can participate in, but the progressive sanctification taking place in your spiritual person enables you to be even more effective for the cause of Christ in other ways.
 
Personally, I have great respect for older people who, while declining physically, still have a great attitude and they are still full of life. They are upbeat and positive, they are great encouragers of others, they are sources of wisdom and good counsel, and they are often fun to be with. Such people have decided to live until they die. They live fully, with passion and vigor. I want to be like that too.
 
As Jimmy Buffet once sang, “I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.” I agree. I encourage all of us to live until we die. Really live.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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Give them some of your strength

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “He comforts us in our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”  2 Corinthians 1:4-6 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “Give them some of your strength”
 
Throughout the years of my ministry, I have had the privilege of knowing Christians who were especially gifted at comforting others. They were men and women who were empathic at a deep level and they had a unique gift of being able to enter into someone else’s pain and suffering with them, sharing the burden and offering comfort.
 
I have great admiration for people who have the strength to carry other people’s burdens like that. They offer some of their own strength to help that person deal with that heavy load. In those cases, there is essentially a transfer of strength taking place. The comforting person is giving the hurting, struggling, grieving person an infusion of strength to help them carry on.
 
In almost every case like that, the gifted comforter is a person who has suffered greatly themselves. They are people who have overcome serious illness, suffered through the pain of the death of a loved one, endured the long-term agony of a wayward adult child, or something similar. Sometimes many times over. The Bible teaches in multiple passages that such suffering of our own, can and should make us stronger so that we can then be a source of strength for others as they endure similar things.
 
The process of progressive sanctification, and the transformation that comes from it, is the result of different and varied kinds of work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. But part of the process involves the Spirit using our times of trial and suffering to make us stronger. That new strength will certainly be of benefit to us when we endure trials of our own, but as Paul teaches in 2 Corinthians 1:4-6, our strength can also be used as a source of strength and comfort for others who are suffering.
 
I encourage you to be willing to share your strength with others. Ask the Lord to make you aware of a suffering, struggling, hurting person today (they’re all around you), then find a way to be a source of comfort and strength for them.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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A new, improved, and better you

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Sanctification”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “A new, improved, and better you”
 
2 Corinthians 5:17 is one of the classic go-to verses we typically include when explaining God’s plan of salvation to an unbeliever. In the moment a person places their faith in Christ they are a new creation. Their sins are forgiven and wiped away; their spirit is reborn as a new creation in Christ; and in the eyes of the Father, the person is a brand-new creation. It is a wonderful promise filled with hope and joy, and it applies specifically and directly to salvation.
 
But it is also true that all believers in Christ have an opportunity to become a new and better person every day – different and improved from who you were yesterday. This is part of the adventure of living the Christian life. If you are a serious disciple of Jesus Christ, and if you have incorporated the basic spiritual disciplines of the Christian life into your daily routine, then you will be growing spiritually and the Holy Spirit will be in the constant process of molding you, shaping you, and transforming you into a new and improved person. You will be different and better from who you were ten years ago, and even from who you were just yesterday.
 
One of the most uplifting and encouraging passages in the Old Testament was recorded by the prophet Jeremiah in the book of Lamentations. In Lamentations 3:22-23 we read, “Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness!”
 
God has new blessings, new words of encouragement, and new spiritual insights waiting for you every day. As you experience them, you will come to know God better and you will grow a little more. And when that happens, you will have changed. You will have grown spiritually and you will be a little different and a little better than you were yesterday. You might not be an entirely new creation from who you were yesterday, but you will be a slightly new, improved, and better version of you.
 
The Christian life lived well is a great adventure of discovery, growing, and serving. God has more for you every day. Go to Him now. Present yourself before the Holy Spirit and let Him mold you and shape you. It will result in a new, improved, and better you.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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