Who are The Faithful in Christ Jesus?

[Sue J Love]

“Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’ and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24:45-51 NASB1995)

It appears to me, from what I have observed over my lifetime, and from what I have read and watched and listened to, and from what I have experienced in my relationships and contacts with other people, that at least here in America, the vast majority of those calling themselves Christians do not take something like this seriously. They believe that they are saved from their sins, and that heaven is guaranteed them when they die, based on a profession of faith they once made in Jesus, so no worries.

It appears to me that the vast majority of them, as far as I can tell, are believing a gospel message that does not require death to sin and walks of obedience to the Lord for them to have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God. For they call that “works salvation.” But is it? Well, Jesus said that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if he does not, but he continues living in sin, then he does not have eternal life with God.

And I think the confusion often comes into play because people are listening to other people and are not studying the Scriptures for themselves, in full context. And so they are getting wrong impressions of what salvation is all about, and what it means to “believe” in Jesus, and what God’s grace is all about, too. Are we saved by our own fleshly works? NO! We are not! Not one of us can be approved by God via our own merit. But our salvation involves us dying to sin and now obeying our Lord, in practice, by God’s grace.

We can’t even come to faith in Jesus Christ unless God the Father draws us to Christ, i.e. unless he persuades us as to his holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die with him to sin and to walk in obedience to his commands, in his power. Even the faith to believe does not come from ourselves, but is a gift of God. And since faith is persuasion of God, and God persuades us to die to sin and to obey his commands, then genuine faith in Jesus will result in us dying to sin and obeying our Lord.

[Hebrews 12:1-2; Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18]

And God’s grace is what sent Jesus Christ to that cross, to put our sins to death with him, so that by faith in him we will now die to sin, not just once, but daily (Luke 9:23-26), and so that we will walk in obedience to his commands in holy living (Romans 6:1-23). And the grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce (say “NO!” to) ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s soon return (Titus 2:11-14).

All throughout the New Testament writings we are taught that how we live matters for eternity. And this is not works salvation. This is the message of the gospel taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, that genuine faith in the Lord Jesus will result in us dying with him to sin and now walking in obedience to his commands, in practice, not necessarily in absolute sinless perfection. But if sin is what we practice, and not obedience, we do not have genuine faith in the Lord resulting in salvation and eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 4:17-32; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

And that is the message being taught here in Matthew 24, that it is the faithful in Christ Jesus, who are putting sin to death in their lives, by the grace of God, and who are walking in obedience to his commands, in the power of God, who are watching and waiting for our Lord’s return, who have that hope and that promise of eternal life with God. But those who do not take God and his commands seriously, and so they continue to walk in sin, and not in obedience to the Lord, they will face the wrath of God, instead.

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

Who are The Faithful in Christ Jesus
An Original Work / February 25, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

[Johanabrahams]

The Faithful in Jesus are those starting of by asking the Living God, YHWH, pronounced Jehovah/Yahweh, to give them the desire to Drink His Word of Jesus as His Babies born of Him.

1 Peter 2: 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Without this Desire from the Holy Spirit of Love nobody can grow up in the Life of our "Abba Father/Daddy". Because the mind of understanding is lying. The Word of God is not given to the mind to understand but to the Spirit to create Life.

John 6: 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

With this "desire" we become Faithful in the Word of Jesus to drink it as our Milk. And later we start eating it as our Bread and Meat.

John 6:
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.