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Rejecting God
I got a call recently from a Christian in Somerset, who had been to the funeral home at Brodhead. He had stopped to see a old class mate that he had gone to school with here in the county that is now in the Nursing Home. He called to ask if I could go and talk with the man further about the gospel. Donnie had tried to talk to him about the plan of salvation but the man had a lot of ideas he had in is mind. I went the next day down to the Nursing Home to talk with the man. The man said he had been praying and begging that God would save his soul, but he did not have any special feelings that he had been saved. We look at Mark 16:15-16, the conversion of the Eunuch in Acts 8, the example of the people on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2. He had the preconceived notion that a person does not have to be baptized. He felt that you needed to get saved first and then you Ashould be baptized. I told to think about the passages and that he need to understand and believe in what Jesus said and taught, not what men had been telling him. I return earlier this with those texts we had discussed printed out in large print, we wanted him to be able to read the word of God himself, and to talk with him further. He was still insistent about his position on baptism. He brought up the hypothetical case about a man in a car wreck, begging God to forgive him, proving to his mind you don't have to be baptized. First he was not in that position, so how would that alleviate him from doing what God said? I have never heard of anybody in that position. But you could use that same hypothetical case to Aprove you don't have to confess Jesus before men, Matt.10:32, Rom.10:10. You could use that same hypothetical case to Aprove you don't have to believe in Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. AYou mean to say a person who is in a car wreck, but has not believed in Jesus, yet he begged God to forgive him would not be saved? You can Aprove@ anything by such hypothetical reasoning. After discussing the matter, he gave me back the large print verses that I had made for him. AHe that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. John 12:48. To reject Christ's word is to reject him. AWhoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me. Luke 10:16 NRSV.
