A Sermon

This is the beginning of folly: God saves you just because He saves you. No prayer, no thanksgiving, no love can save you? Just the arbitrary will of God? The church goes down this path, and it leads to many errors. A man thinks he's saved, and does no good, while another man thinks he's a wretch, but does much. Who was it that Jesus lauded?

I hate to say this, but we labor and run a race. We are not merely chosen, and therefore get to float down the lazy river of life, and reap all the rewards, even into the hereafter. We must lose our life for the Gospel's sake, keep in mind the poor, and repent every day and beg God for spiritual fruits, as many men think to ask Jesus for worldly prosperity, and woe to the man whom it is given, if there were no spiritual gifts desired by that man. That is carnality, to pray for wives, houses, fame and children, but not the gifts of the Spirit. I wish people would have taught me that. Because that's what the Church needs.