[Salvation]

**So in today’s Gospel Jesus points out three powerful obstacles to His grace flowing through us to others: lost connections, leaping to conclusions, and lip service.**

[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[metmom]

Msgr Pope.

Matthew West - The Motions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUg9qE_KjLg

[boatbums]

St. Paul spoke of how he had a kind of sober vigilance about his own salvation: But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified (1 Cor 9:27).

Except Paul wasn't talking about losing his salvation. He was talking about being a testimony to others through the life he led and that if he let his old nature prevail and fell into sin, others would not hear his message, his preaching would be rejected.

lest that by any means when I have preached to others; the Gospel of the grace of God, for their souls' profit and advantage, to gain and save them; and have called upon them so to run, that they might receive and enjoy the incorruptible crown:

I myself should be a castaway, or rejected, or disapproved of; that is, by men: the apostle's concern is, lest he should do anything that might bring a reproach on the Gospel; lest some corruption of his nature or other should break out, and thereby his ministry be justly blamed, and be brought under contempt; and so he be rejected and disapproved of by men, and become useless as a preacher: (Gill's Exposition of the Bible)

[NorthMountain]

Excellent as usual from Pope Charles.