The Story of the Multitude
John 6:1-71
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep,
But just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.
I don’t want enough of God to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant.
I want ecstasy, not transformation.
I want warmth of the womb, not a new birth.
I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack.
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
WILBER REES – $3 Worth of God
Main Thing to Know:
I’m not if I’m not
1. Some commitments are
[Many] want to be close enough to Jesus to get all the benefits, but not so close that it requires anything from them.
—Kyle Idleman, Not a Fan
2. Some commitments are
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ . . .
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
3. Some commitments are
I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will;
Put me to doing, put me to suffering;
Let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you,
Exalted for you, or brought low for you;
Let me be full, let me be empty,
Let me have all things, let me have nothing:
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things
To your pleasure and disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
You are mine and I am yours . . .
(John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer)