Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
01/08/2015, by John Kincaid
Lesson 475: Those Who Add Little, Pt.2
Many who are saved late in life despair that they did not teach their children about Christ.
Yet Christ rejoices in their salvation; our worth is not based on our performance.
Those who turn to Christ late have traveled a harder road than those raised as believers.
Their decision to turn to Christ is dramatic, courageous, powerful and significant.
They turned from being set in their ways, a lifetime of selfish and sinful habits.
Yet they offer a beacon of hope that change is possible, even for the worst sinners.
Think of the powerful testimonies in Scripture of those who were saved from deep sin:
- Rahab the harlot
- apostles such as Paul and Matthew
- Zacchaeus
- the woman at the well
Anyone delivered from years of addiction or any visible sin will display a dramatic change.
Their friends immediately notice a radical transformation. No one can deny the change.
They are a vivid picture of the difference between worldliness and holy living.
About This Series
The goal of this series is to become more useful in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, as an instrument in the Redeemer's hand. The theme verses for the series are Ephesians 4:22-24, Philemon 11, 2 Timothy 2:21
- to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.
- Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
