Salvation comes by dependency on Jesus

Making a one-time decision to “accept Christ” isn’t Christianity. Daily surrendering your life to Christ’s direct Lordship and control is.

To truly believe in Jesus is to daily depend on Him instead of depending on your own effort, knowledge, desires, or opinions. Go beyond belief that Jesus is real. Begin to rely and depend on Him to take direct, day-to-day control of your life.

Christian discipleship is daily dependency on the risen Jesus. That’s why it’s so rare. Pride rejects dependency on God but embraces dependency on possessions, habits, relationships, drugs, alcohol, sex, etc.

Who is calling on the name of the Lord? Who is appealing to the living Jesus? Who is hungering and thirsting for righteousness? Who is drawing near to God? Who is tasting and seeing that the Lord is good? Who is being led by the Spirit? Who is invoking and surrendering to the presence and power of the resurrected Jesus? Who is making Jesus their daily Lord and Master by allowing Him to align their heart and lifestyle to conform to His will? Who is being transformed from glory to glory? Those are being saved! You will recognize those who are calling on the name of the Lord by their fruit — the fruit of the Holy Spirit flourishing within them and freely flowing from them.

Call on the name of the Lord. The ancient Jews feared that they would break the command not to take God’s name in vain, so they called Him Lord instead of using His Name. The first Christians boldly proclaimed that “Jesus is Lord,” and that His name is above every other name. In other words, Jesus is the God-man — the Creator of all that exists, who became a man and was “manifest in the flesh.” Anyone who proclaims Jesus as less than that is proclaiming “another Jesus” and has departed from the Jesus proclaimed by the early Christ-followers and the Scriptures. Continually call on, appeal to, and rely on the living Lord Jesus to work in and through you.

Forcing someone who doesn’t want to be around you to spend time with you isn’t love. Surely a loving God wouldn’t do that. You’re free to depend on Jesus or to ignore Him.

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