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Commitment. Commitment is to flow out of love, isn't it? That perhaps is the overriding

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theme of the skit that we've just seen. Today we want to think about the community of the

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saints as a community of commitment. I invite you to open your Bible with me to the book

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of Ephesians chapter 4 where we'll look at verses 14 through 16. As a result, maybe it'd

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be good for us to stop for a moment and ask as a result of what? The answer is found in

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the last few phrases where he tells us that Jesus Christ has given leadership to the church

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to equip it for the work of service so that the body of Christ may be built up to oneness

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of faith and to an intimate knowledge of the Son of God. As a result of that, we are no

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longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about with every wind

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of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth

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in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from

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whom the whole body being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies

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according to the proper working of each individual part causes the growth of the body for the

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building up of itself in love. A lot of modifying phrases in those two verses, three verses.

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Let me just strip out for you the essence of what they're saying. We are no longer

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to be children, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him from whom the whole body causes the

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growth of the body. The purpose of Jesus Christ in the community of saints is that it mature

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into a strong, well-developed body through which Christ touches the world. While God's

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purpose cannot fail for the new community, the fact is that we who are in the community,

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we its saints, can fail God's purpose. In order not to fail, we must understand the

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commitments that are involved in saying that we are a part of the church of Jesus Christ.

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It seems to me in the text that is before us this morning, there are at least three

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commitments that we need to understand if we would participate and help Him fulfill

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His purpose for the new community. The first commitment is to growth. To become a strong,

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well-developed body by which Christ touches the world, we must be committed to growth.

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Now, He talks here about growth really in two dimensions. He talks about growing up,

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growing up, verse 15. The thought here seems to be to develop into a mature understanding

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of spiritual realities, to grow up into Him who is the fullness of everything. It seems

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to connote that we are to mature or to grow up in our understanding of spiritual realities.

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We are to grow up spiritually. There is a second aspect to growth and that is in growing

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out. He speaks about the whole body causing the growth of the body for the building up

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of itself. This is more than simply growing up into Christ spiritually. This is growing

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out, becoming larger, more developed, extended in our size and influence. It is the same

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way that we grow as human beings. As we mature, we grow in our understanding of the world

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and how we relate to it. But we also grow up physically. We extend ourselves as it were.

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We grow in our development, our size and our influence. The same is to be true of the body

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of Jesus Christ, the new community of the saints. The growth of a human being to some

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degree happens automatically. It is built into us genetically to grow. But if you stop

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to think about it, it also does require some commitment on our part. We have to be committed

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to go to school, to study under teachers, to do our work, to take our tests, to grow

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intellectually. We have to be committed to learn how to get along with other people and

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grow socially. It takes commitment to grow up in that sense. And while our bodies will

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mature naturally if they are healthy, if we want them to be strong and well-developed

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bodies, that also takes commitment on our part. We have to exercise. We have to eat

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the right kinds of foods. We have to be sure that our bodies are growing as strongly as

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they can. The body of Jesus Christ requires the growth, the commitment of its members

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to its growth, to growing up and growing out and becoming all that Christ wants it to be.

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The alternative is to remain immature or undeveloped like a child. There are two verbs used here

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that describe the immature. They are unstable and undependable. Unstable like waves that

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are driven by the wind and tossed. Undependable like something that is blown by the wind and

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carried around. This happens, he says, especially by false teachers, crafty people who use cleverly

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disguised ideas and methods to deceive and to lead the immature away from the truth into

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error. Their goal is to instill within the immature child of God a false system of values

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or beliefs that will preclude growth. We need to be aware of false teaching that is so prominent

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in our world today that robs us of our maturity in Christ. If the church will mature and grow,

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it requires a mindset on our part for growth. That involves discipline, sacrifice, commitment

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to make it happen. There is a second commitment that is required if the church is to become

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strong and well developed as a body through which Christ touches the world. It is a commitment

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to truth. He says, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up. Literally, he says, truthing

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it in love. Truthing it in love. It may have a couple of aspects. Number one, objective

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truth. We are to speak objective truth. That is the revelation of God. What God has told

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us. What is true because God has said it is true. We are to speak that in love to one

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another. We are to preach it. We are to teach it. We are to disciple with it, truthing it

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in love. The probably closer to his meaning here is subjective truth. That is honesty,

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transparency about ourselves. We are to truth it in the church. It is easy for us to develop

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masks behind which we hide so the people can't see the real us. We come to church dressed

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up in our finest with our plastic smiles and our faces and our warm handshakes. Yet we

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never allow anybody to see back behind that facade to understand the struggle and the

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burdens and the disappointments and the tears that are there. If we want our body, our community

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of saints to grow up and be well developed, if we want to touch the world as Christ lives

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through us, then we need to truth it. We need to be honest. We need to be transparent. That's

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hard to do when there are four or five hundred people in a place. But when we get into smaller

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groups, now there is an atmosphere. There is a place where you can begin trusting. You

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can learn to know that it is okay to be yourself and even let your pimples show. You remember

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that stuff you used to put on your face when you were a teenager? It was not only a medication

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to dry your skin, but it was made in the old days to be flesh colored so it covered up

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and blimish. What we didn't realize is that too often we put it on thick and by the time

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we got to school it was cracked and everybody could see we had this thing on our face anyway.

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We weren't hiding much. There of course is a sense when all of us come to church with

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that spiritual clercil on our faces and we are hoping others can't see, but there has

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to be some time in our lives when we wash our faces and for our spiritual health we

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let others see what we are struggling with. You know why? Because they are struggling

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with the same things and then we help each other. If we want to grow up and be a strong

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force that is powerful in the world, then we need to learn to commit ourselves to being

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honest and transparent with others. A third commitment is called for in our text if we

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would be a body that would be strong and well developed through which Christ can touch the

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world. It is a commitment to work, to work. He says, from whom the whole body being fitted

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and held together by that which every joint supplies according to the proper working of

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each individual part. The body to be a healthy well developed body requires the work of service.

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He gives us a hint as to what this involves and using those two verbs that we just read

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of being fitted and held together. To be fitted means to be joined together. It is used only

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here and one other time in the whole New Testament back in chapter 2 and verse 21. It means to

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be brought together, to join together. That's what God wants to do and through the work

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of service as we are ministering and serving Him in the body we are bringing people together,

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connecting Christians to other Christians, something we all need. It takes work to do

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that. It's worth it. When I am involved in serving the Lord in the local church it makes

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me connectable. And there is somebody else who is serving the Lord and because he is

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serving he or she is connectable and we can get together. It talks about being held together.

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This refers to those parts of our bodies that hold the rest of us together. I feel like

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I am coming apart this morning. I was doing some work around the house on Friday and got

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up apparently the wrong way and pulled something in my back. It's okay when I sit down. It's

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okay when I stand up but getting in between the two is a problem. I think that some of

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what is holding me together is beginning to come apart as I get older. He is talking here

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about those parts of us, the joints, the ligaments, the muscles that hold our body together. We

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are out there working, serving the Lord in ministry in our local church. What are we

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doing? We are not only connecting people and ourselves but we are holding the body together.

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We are pulling it together. That's the work that we must commit ourselves to. He tells

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us here that the head supplies what we need. That which every joint supplies he says. Literally

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says that which every contact point supplies. It seems to mean that as you and I come together

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in our service, in our work for Christ and there is a contact point, the head provides

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right there what we need to be cemented together. Our head, the Lord Jesus Christ, knows the

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nourishment, the direction, the life that we need so that this work can take place.

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We can be connected as each individual part of us does the work. Each of us is some part

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in the body of Christ. We each have some role to play. What I do, what you do, it's all

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important according to the proper working, he says, of each individual part. If some

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part isn't working then the body is going to lack something. To some degree the body

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is not going to grow up as healthy and as well developed for Christ's use as it ought

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to. But he tells us when every part is working properly, the result is that the body promotes

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its own growth in love. And the body then grows into Christ and the body grows from

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Christ outward so that God's purpose is realized. His purpose, I repeat again, is that the community

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of the saints mature into a strong, well-developed body through which Jesus Christ touches the

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world in which we live. It doesn't stop with our being built up. That's the means to the

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end that Jesus Christ be able to touch the world around us with His grace, His saving

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grace. Now that purpose, I again repeat, will be fulfilled and realized to the extent that

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you and I are willing to commit ourselves to what we've talked about. We're willing

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to commit ourselves to growth. And instead of saying, we don't need to do anymore, we've

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done enough to say, Lord, I commit myself to grow spiritually into Christ and to grow

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outwardly in my influence for Him. Lord, I commit myself to being truthful, to speaking

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the truth of God's Word to others, but also being truthful and honest in my relationships

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with others. Lord, I commit myself to work, to doing my thing, what You've gifted and

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called me to do in the body. I commit myself to that. We're living in a day when commitment

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is a dirty word. That's why the skip this morning was so especially powerful, because

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historically in our culture at least, marriage has been based upon a mutual commitment that's

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been strong. And today that's slipping. And even the marriage vows are being changed many

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times to reflect the fact that this is not a commitment till death do us part. This is

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a commitment as long as we love one another. But commitment is what God calls for, not

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only in marriage, but in the church. Commitment. There are three or four observations about

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commitment that I'd like to make in closing. One is that commitment is a mindset first

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and then an action. First, the will determines commitment. Following that, the actions of

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the life fulfill it. It's a mindset first. This is beautifully illustrated in a young

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man in our junior high group. I would like to have called him up here this morning so

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that he could share his story personally with you, but he's on retreat. Junior high retreat.

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But a few weeks ago, our students were challenged to go to the flagpole to pray. Some of you

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read about that in the newspaper. They showed pictures of it, in fact, in the media of students

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all across America, millions of them, went to their flagpoles to pray for their schools.

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This one student goes to a local middle school where there's not a strong Christian presence.

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And that morning, having made up his mind, he was going to evidence his commitment to

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Christ by going to the flagpole. He went to the flagpole alone and stood there for 20

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minutes by himself praying for his school. To me, that young man is a hero. That young

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man shows the kind of commitment that I want to emulate in my life, and I hope you do too.

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It began in a mindset. He said, I'm going to do this, and he followed through. The second

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observation about commitment I'd like to make is that commitment should flow from love.

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As we saw earlier in the skit, commitment should flow from love. But if love is not

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there, commitment is still right. I hear some people say, well, if I don't really feel

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like doing it, I shouldn't do it. It doesn't do any good anyway. God isn't pleased with

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it. Wrong. Wrong thinking. Commitment should flow from love, but if love isn't there,

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commitment is still right. We ought still to do it. That's true in a marriage. Sometimes

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I hear a spouse say, well, I don't love her anymore. I don't love him anymore. So what?

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You committed yourself to marriage. Till death you do part. Love can be rekindled. You may

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have to work at it, but it can be rekindled. The same is true in ministry. You may get

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tired teaching that Sunday school class. You may get weary working in the nursery. You

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may feel like you don't want to do this or that anymore. The point is that commitment

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is commitment. And if on a certain weekend I'm tired on Sunday and I just don't show

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up, that's failure on my part. Because I've made a commitment to be there. Now, commitment

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ought to flow out of love. That's the ideal. That's where it ought to be. And most of

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the time is, but even if love isn't there, commitment is still right. Commitment is still

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commitment. Now, there are those who say, well, that's legalistic. I hardly think so.

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It's godly. Thirdly, commitment is second nature to a genuine Christian. Commitment

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is second nature to a genuine Christian. Why? Because Jesus Christ loved us and gave Himself

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for us. He made a commitment. And when we come to Him, we receive His nature. Therefore,

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it is part of our nature to be committed. Not that we always follow through the way

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we should. But a Christian without commitment is like making a promise with one's fingers

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crossed. There's something wrong there. Finally, commitment to Christ should go hand

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in hand with commitment to His church. You cannot separate Jesus Christ from the new

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community of the saints. It's impossible. To be committed to Jesus Christ means committed

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to the community of the saints, to His work in the world. It means being committed to

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work, to truth, to growth. A few weeks ago, I was privileged to be in the church in Covington,

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Kentucky where I had pastored back in the 1970s. We were in the area because of taking

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our son to college. But on that particular weekend, they were honoring a staff member

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who's been in that church 35 years. He's been through five pastors since 1958, serving

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God, faithful, wonderful man. I was invited to come to the reception to say a few words

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regarding my experience with Bob. And afterward, we were in a receiving line in this room.

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And in came the saints, people that I've known in years past and worked with side by

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side. I was impressed with how many of them are still serving Christ. I think of one man

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who's 88 or 89, was on our staff back in the 70s, had been in the 60s and the 50s having

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joined the staff back in the 40s, a maintenance man. And there he was up in his upper 80s

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still coming into the church, volunteering time, working that way. And then there came

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some of the ladies in the Fidelis class. Fidelis means what? Faithful. They're appropriately

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named. When you graduate from the Fidelis class, you're with the Lord. That's the

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group it is. And a lot of them have graduated. I'm telling you, some of these ladies, 90,

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92, 94 years of age out there that evening for the reception, in Sunday school almost

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every week, they let them out of the nursing home. If they're not sick in bed, if they're

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able to be there, they are there. Mabel wasn't there though. I've told you about Mabel

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before. She's gone to be with Christ. She's one of the graduates. Back in the 70s, we

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honored Mabel for 35 years of not having missed Sunday school once. The last number of years

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of that 35, she lived 35 or 40 miles away in Glencoe, Kentucky and drove summer, winter,

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and made no difference by herself all the way to Sunday school, 35 years. She was there

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several years longer than that without missing, went to be with the Lord a few years ago.

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I want to tell you something. When I looked at those saints coming through the line, I

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knew why Calvary Baptist Church is the church it is. It's not because it's had famous

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pastors. It's not because it's had wonderful deacons. It's because the people of that

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church are committed to it. The people who call themselves members of Calvary Baptist

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Church are committed to its growth, committed to truth, committed to work, and are willing

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to lay down whatever price it takes so that Jesus Christ can touch northern Kentucky through

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the ministry of that community. There are skeptics who say that you can't have churches

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like that anymore. I hope they're wrong. And from what I see in the lives of some of

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you, I'm encouraged to believe the skeptics are wrong because I see the same kind of commitment

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from young and old in Grace Church, Roseville. This morning I want to call all of us to that

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commitment. It's not enough that some be committed. We must all who name the name of Christ, who

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say we are the bride of Christ, it is for all of us to be committed to Him and to the

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church that He loves. Let's pray. Would you stand with me please? I hope this morning

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that you sense in your heart a drawing of the Spirit of God to commitment so that you

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no longer are willing to stand on the sidelines if that's the case. You want to get into it.

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I hope that you sense a drawing to commitment so that as you are committed, others will

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join you. And together with each individual part, properly working, this body of Jesus

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Christ too will be built up in love. Let's sing from our hearts.