Shipwrecked! How Being Saved Can Still Cost You

Lesson Transcript

Okay, so imagine you're out there, you're on a little, uh, rubber raft or something, you've, you know, been shipwrecked or something. You're out there in the ocean, and here comes a freighter along and saves you, okay? You're saved, you're brought on board that ship, and they're not even going to charge you anything. It's free. You've been saved, okay? But it's not all over, okay? You're on this freighter, and the captain tells you, "Not going to charge you anything, happy to have saved your life, welcome aboard.

We're going to just treat you as part of the crew. You're going to have the same responsibilities as the rest of the crew." And, you know, that means, you know, breakfast is at 6 a.m., and Mondays and Thursdays you peel potatoes, you, you know, cook on Fridays. Uh, every afternoon you're going to be responsible for mopping the top deck, whatever, whatever you have in a ship, okay? And I say, "Wait a minute, you don't understand. I'm an attorney, okay?

I don't mop, you know, decks, I don't peel potatoes like I'm a common seaman, you know?" And the captain says, "Well, you either do what everyone else does or you can get off the ship." And I decided, you know, when I was in that little raft, no one told me what to do. I could sleep as late as I wanted, didn't have any chores to get back in my raft. That's the way salvation is. We don't want to walk. As citizens of God's kingdom, He doesn't make us. Uh, we can jump back out, we can serve Satan again.

And as absurd as it is, that's the choice a lot of people make. Other people just refuse to live by God's requirements, and they're having, they have to be put out.