Is Jesus Enough for Our Salvation?”

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to this special Christmas edition of changing your world on creflo dollar.
And all week, we have been dealing with the practical side of our Christmas celebration.
Today, we’re gonna ask a very interesting question.
Is Jesus enough for our salvation, or should we add something to Jesus?
This is going to bless your life. Stay tuned, and I’ll see you right after the message.
This is your world.
Sola’s to make it a better place.
Let every hard than me is now. You uh,
uh, If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of acts chapter 4 versus 10 through 12, we’re gonna read it in the King James and then read verse 12 in the NLT.
I wanna talk to you for, uh, for today. I this is so very important.
I keep hearing people saying, they make these long list about all the things you have to do to be saved.
And and if you don’t do that, then, you know, you you you’re gonna go to hail.
And if you do this, then you’re not really saved.
Uh, but I thought I got saved the day I got saved.
Now, well, now that was it was just really And, um, and I’m wondering is Jesus enough for our salvation?
So I wanna talk about that today. Is Jesus enough to keep our salvation?
Or are we gonna continue to be instructed to keep adding stuff? To it.
Is he enough to keep our salvation? Cause that’s pretty important right now.
You need to know it, and you need to be very secure in what the word of god says about your salvation.
Because if
you leave it up to some people,
you if you breathe wrong, you you ain’t you ain’t saved no more.
You’re gonna be in hell by 12 o’clock. You know? It’s it’s like, Daw.
It’s like we have this thing about loving to send people to hell and using fear as a mechanism to try to keep people safe.
Look at this. Acts chapter 4 verse 10 through 12.
He said be it known until you all.
And to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom god raised from the dead, that same Jesus, even by him, the, this man stand here before you hold.
Verse 11? He said, now Jesus now is the stone, which was set at naught of, of you builders, which has become he’s he’s become the head of the cornerstone.
So Jesus is the head of the cornerstone.
He said this stone, but Jesus is the head of the cornerstone. Neither is their salvation in any
other. For there is none other name under heaven.
Given among men, whereby we must be saved. Nobody else,
but Jesus, And then look
at the look
at verse 12 in the NLT. He said, there is salvation in no one else
God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.
There is salvation in no one else There is no salvation in nobody else, but Jesus.
And then in John, Saint John chapter 14, and verse 6, and the King James, Saint John chapter 14, in verse 6 in the King James.
He says, Jesus saith under him.
I am the way
the truth, the life,
no man.
How many is no man? No man?
Coming onto the father, but by
me.
Nobody nobody is coming to a father. Nobody’s getting into heaven. Nobody’s coming to the father’s throne.
Except by Jesus Christ. Well, I don’t agree. I believe there are many ways to god.
Hey, put one way to god.
Now, traditionally speaking, What about the grounds for keeping our salvation?
What about sinning willfully after having known the truth.
That if I
if if I wanna stay safe, I gotta make sure I don’t send willfully What about bearing fruit?
And if I don’t bear fruit, I’ll be cut off, and somebody says you go to hell.
What about being hot? You can’t be hot or cold, but you gotta be lukewarm.
And if you look warm, that ain’t gonna get it.
Because god said he gonna spit you out his mouth.
And that being you ain’t saved no more.
What about not having enough oil in the lamp when Jesus returns?
What about forgetting to confess your sins?
Well, the Bible says
you gotta confess your sins. Well, what if you get what if you forget one?
What if you can forget the sin that you went to the restaurant, and you just had a bad attitude?
That sin anything that pops pops short of love is said. What are you you seriously, seriously think
come down, Greg. You seriously think that god is going to, you know, you’re gonna lose your salvation because you forgot to confess something he’s already taken care of.
Uh, go to Hebrews chapter 1028 in the new living translation.
I I think that’s it. Hebrews chapter, I think it’s 928 in the in the Hebrew in the, uh, NLT.
What about the unforgivable sin? Oh, the unforg the unforgivable sin.
If you if you commit the unforgivable sin, you lose your salvation.
We spent more time trying to find reasons for people to to lose their salvation.
And this morning, I just wanna set the record straight. We believe in the word of god.
I just I have to set the record straight.
Uh Hebrews chapter 928 before I start this, he says, so also Christ was offered once for all times as a sacrifice.
To do what? Take away the sins of many people. He will come again.
Not to deal with our sins. What?
He’s coming again, but not to deal with your sins.
Why is he not coming again to deal with your sins? Because he’s already dealt with it.
Send is something that’s dealt with. It’s it’s a it’s a done deal. He’s already handled that.
And if you’re still struggling trying to figure out how to handle it yourself, He says, I’m not coming back to deal with your sins.
I’ve already handled your sins, but I’m coming back, but to, to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting
for him. And that’s the salvation of your, your, your, your new body that’s gonna be put on, your glorified body.
Now let’s get into this. Let’s study the scriptures carefully.
And find out, is Jesus enough, or do we need to add something else to him?
Is he enough? Because some Christians aren’t convinced that Jesus is enough.
Let’s begin in John chapter 15 verse 2 in the King James.
Let’s look at Jesus plus bearing fruit. What’s the deal there?
Is there see, I believe that it’s Jesus plus nothing, but let’s let’s, for this lesson today, look at Jesus and say, alright, well, you gotta, you gotta handle that issue with bearing fruit.
Okay. Well, let’s look at just what he says about this bearing fruit issue.
He says every branch in me, that bear with not fruit, He take it the way.
And every branch that barreth fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now How many of you know, the Bible makes it clear that he is the vine we are the branch.
Say out loud, I’m a branch. Okay. And notice that the fruit appears through the branch.
But if the branch is no longer attached to the vine, it it withers away, and it
dies. Right?
So you you can see where people are going with this.
They’re they’re they’re saying, well, you know, every branch in me, that bear with not fruit, he’d take it the way.
So if he takes the branch away because you’re not bearing fruit, then you no longer save.
Branch can’t be living because it’s detached from the vine.
Now think think about your god whose nature is love.
Does that sound like something god would do? No. Does that sound like something god would do?
Some of you still not sure, are you? Because you’ve been camped out there for so long.
You’re like, well, that’s what I heard all my life, but there’s one problem with that.
And this is the thing when we don’t rightly divide the word and study it, we we we we we look at this.
At first glance, this scripture seems to say that unless you bear fruit, you will be cut off from Jesus.
And if we’re cut off from Jesus, then we’re no longer saved. So what does this really mean?
Now follow me carefully.
You see the phrase every branch in me that bear if not fruit, that phrase underline it taketh away.
Taketh away, or another translation may
say cut off. That originates from a
a a Greek word, and you can look it
up for yourself. Strongs. I think I
wrote it down. Strongs number 142. And it’s the Greek word arrow. A I r o.
We translated it in English with 2 words, taketh away or cut off.
This Greek word means this.
It means to lift from the ground or to take up
You see a vine dresser who understands that if
the branch is not getting enough sunlight, it needs to be bared up or lifted up or adjusted up.
Here’s what he’s saying. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, god’s gonna bear you up or lift you up.
He gonna lift you up until you’re able to bear fruit.
He’s not gonna cut you off or take you away.
He’s gonna prop you up, lift you up, straighten you up, so you can bear.
Oh my goodness.
If A person bears no fruit at all.
We don’t send that person from the church?
We put him in a fellowship group so somebody can bear him up until he’s able to do
what he needs to do.
This is similar to the bond dresser. How is it that our theology can convince people?
And and and and and what kind of proof are we looking for anyway?
Do you think bearing fruit means money? No. Bearing fruit, what fruit? The fruit of the spirit.
If this person who is a part of the vine is not bearing the fruit of love and joy and long suffering.
And he’s not bearing the fruit of the spirit, Let’s get him. Let’s hold him up. Let’s bear up.
Though, here’s the context. Those who, who are strong bear the infirmities of the week.
So you don’t need to add this to Jesus.
We are connected to Jesus tree, and our fruit will be Jesus fruit. Global to god.
So we didn’t we don’t need to connect.
We Jesus is still enough because Jesus is the one that’s bearing you up. Alright.
Well, what about
the other part? And every branch that bears fruit, he purges it.
That it may bring forth more fruit. Now, this is interesting.
The second part of John 152 says, and every branch that bears fruit like uh, fruit. He prunes.
That’s the word for it. He prunes that that that that that that branch, that it may bear more fruit.
I’m getting ready to prune some trees on my property because it hadn’t been pruned, and it needs to bear better fruit.
It’s gonna I pruned some, uh, uh, a rose bush. And I thought, oh, my god. It’s destroyed forever.
But when it came back, those roses were bigger and and more red, and it it was just beautiful.
And here’s what he says. As he
I believe that much of this pruning is to remove religion and mixture
from our lives.
Yeah. He’s getting ready to prune self effort, self dependence.
He’s he’s getting ready to prune.
See, whatever you thought about this scripture before you got here today, and you hearing, gain an understanding of what I’m showing you right now, you being pruned, baby.
And whatever you might be going through in your life, god may allow some stuff to happen in your life, but as you trust him and depend on him, and you didn’t see it coming.
You didn’t see your deliverance coming. You didn’t see the money coming. You didn’t see the promotion coming.
But all god trying to do is prune you away from religion, prune you away from self dependence, get you into a place where you say I can depend on God.
That’s Jesus. So it’s not Jesus Plus. You got to bear some fruit.
It’s Jesus who go ham you bear the fruit. It’s Jesus who’s gonna help prop you up.
Jesus is enough to keep your salvation. Oh, come on, somebody.
Jesus is enough to keep your salvation.
Number 2.
Should we add the caution of not sending willfully Is Jesus enough to keep my salvation?
Or, I mean, sinning willfully.
That that’s so strange to me since all sin is an act of your will.
Uh, when you say when you create a category like willful sin, it’s almost like you’re saying, and then there’s the sin that you call.
I made a mistake. Oh, excuse me. I curse you. I I ain’t mean to.
Now I I wanna I wanna walk you through this one.
Go go to the book of, uh, Hebrews chapter 1026. Hebrew chapter 1026.
It’s time to get it now. The end of the end has begun.
I don’t know how many you know, 20, 30, 40, 50 more years.
I don’t know, but I know it started.
And what’s happening now, I can find it to you right in chapter in verse.
And I can tell you what’s getting ready to happen next.
I don’t have to watch the news on
this one, baby. It’s already been prophesied before the time. Alright. Now watch this carefully.
So we we we got
to we got to get out of this self dependence, and this religion that’s keeping us in bondage to bad doctrine and bad teaching.
He broke chapter 10, verse 26.
Now, reverse 26, out loud women, the King James, he says, 4, If we sin willfully, after that, we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remain it no more sacrifice of sins.
So here’s what he’s saying here. Here’s what I heard it.
If you sin willfully, Then there’s no more sacrifice for you.
And I, I took it as, okay, if I sin willfully, in other words, I know what I’m doing, and I did it.
Yes, god. I did it. Well, there ain’t no more sacrifice than you, boy. You’re going to hell.
They didn’t have to tell me. I assumed that they were saying there’s no sacrifice.
No more sacrifices left for you.
Because you’ve sin willfully, therefore, you don’t, you don’t, you have lost your salvation because you have sin willfully.
That’s not at all what it means. Context is king.
So sometimes in order to get to context, you got to back up several versus the scripture.
I mean, if we don’t
if we don’t quote the Bible, we might as well know what it means.
Don’t get don’t park in bad tradition and not understand you you you gotta get the context in order to know what it means.
Like, now I got 3. What’s the one
that say you curse what a curse? And then I don’t even read it no more.
You curse what a curse. And and, uh, you have robbed god And you you you’re gonna rob the whole nation, and you’re gonna curse with a curse.
You know? Yeah. It’s just
a horrible scripture. And we use it today to to to get people to to to tie.
But I’m telling you, if you back up about 2 chapters, the whole thing was a conversation to the levitical priesthood.
He says, you guys are cheating me on what you give him.
You give me the worst of what you can give me. And then he said, you know what?
You are cursed with a curse.
We it couldn’t be talking about us because we’re born again, and Jesus took away the curse.
So as Jesus somebody that’s gonna take
it with a curse and then put it back on you, then take it with a curse and then put it back on you, sound a little double minded to me.
That’s even for us, and we are quoting it like it’s for us.
Wow, man.
You know, when you start looking at, you know, is Jesus enough to to back us up so we can bear fruit, or is he going to is he gonna, you know, destroy the branch and then we dine to hell.
And and you find out that’s not it. He’s he’s got our back.
Or or when you when you look at the the issues of blasphemy.
I and you realize that this is an issue of unbelief.
Thank god for the birth of Jesus Christ. Thank god that he is enough.
And I want you to know that.
I want you to know that through your celebration this Christmas Jesus is enough. He’s enough to be your peace.
He’s enough to be your joy. He’s enough to be your provision.
And I am thanking god for that.
So have a merry Christmas celebrate Jesus and understand throughout this celebration, he is enough.
And let me say this. He’s more than enough. God bless you. May or Christmas to everybody.
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