The Family and Salvation / Discipleship

Pearls of Biblical Wisdom for Believers and Fathers

Jay Lufkin and his son Joshua Lufkin join me in this podcast. They both explain their testimony of how they came to understand salvation through Christ and how God led them to Greenville Christian Fellowship.

The text for this podcast is: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. 1Co 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 1Co 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 1Co 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 1Co 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

We discuss the following points:

1. We begin by discussing the critical importance of humility and dependence on God as to parents teaching their sons and daughters the Word of God.

2. We explain the certainty of absolute inerrant truth found in the Word of God and how critical it is for parents to constantly teach their sons and daughters from the Word of God and to teach them that God's truth endures to all generations. (Ps. 100:5) What was right and wrong fifty years ago or 500 years ago is still right or wrong in this present generation.

3. We explain the critical importance of the Holy Spirit as to sons and daughters being taught properly and that God has sufficiently equipped moms and dads who know the Lord Jesus Christ and have the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord's life (Eph. 6:4)

4. We explain that it is not enough to give mental assent to facts about the Lord Jesus Christ. For sons and daughters to be saved they must receive Christ. (John 1:12) It is not being in a church building and having religion that saves It must be CHRIST LIVING IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU ! - Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

I briefly share my own personal testimony of how I was saved towards the end of the podcast. After I was saved Tom Tarvin spent about two years discipling me so that I could understanding my relationship to Christ and how to grow stronger in knowing Him and helping others come to know Him. We explain how necessary discipleship is after conversion in fulfilling the great commission - Matt. 28:18-20