Common Misconceptions About Being Saved

John 16:33 (KJV)

33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

• People think that once they get saved, everything in their life will go well and fine after that…

• With no troubles…no heartaches…no lack…and no slack…

• But what they’re really looking for is something or someone to take away all their troubles so they can live their lives free of things that they don’t like…

• They want to have their cake and eat it too…they want all the good stuff without changing their lifestyle to get it!

• But what they find is that after accepting Christ as their Savior…their friends reject them…

• Or…their family opposes their decision to follow Christ…

• Or…things they don’t like or enjoy still happen to them!

• Actually…just because you accept Christ as your Savior and Lord doesn’t mean that bad things won’t ever happen to you after that!

• So, many people say… “Well, if all this stuff is going to happen to me anyway…then why would I want to follow Jesus Christ?”

• Well…the #1 reason to follow Jesus is because you can’t get to heaven without it!

• You have to make up your mind to follow Him no matter what…no matter where it leads!

• It may not be a bed of roses…sugar and spice and everything nice!

• In our text…Jesus summed up all he had told them during this night…

• He tied together themes from three different passages…

John 14:27-29 (KJV)

27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

John 16:1-4 (KJV)

1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

• But the benefits of serving God far outweigh the hardships that will come!

• So…what are some of the benefits of being saved and serving the Lord?

John 16:8-11 (KJV)

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;

10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

• With these words he told his disciples to take courage!

• In spite of the inevitable struggles they’d face, they wouldn’t be alone!

• Jesus doesn’t abandon us during our struggles either!

• If we remember that the ultimate victory has already been won, then we can claim the peace of Christ in the most troublesome of times!

• In John Chapter 17…Jesus prayed for His disciples for what He knew they would go through after He left them and went back to the Father…

John 17:15-23 (KJV)

15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.