No, it is almost impossible for a person to be completely sold out to God, but God desires people who strive for this level of commitment.
Les Feldick teaches that human free will and the constant presence of choices make absolute surrender virtually unattainable. However, the goal of wholehearted devotion is what God seeks, and believers are to pursue it while relying on God's sovereign control.
Matthew 6:24 — This verse directly addresses the impossibility of serving both God and worldly interests, which aligns with the question of complete sold-out commitment.
The Bible acknowledges the struggle between devotion to God and worldly attachments. Jesus Himself stated, 'No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon' (Matthew 6:24). This indicates that a divided heart is not acceptable, and complete allegiance is required. Yet, the same Scripture also reveals that believers are constantly faced with choices between the flesh and the Spirit, making perfect sold-outness a constant battle.
Les Feldick emphasizes that while God is sovereign and in total control, He has granted humans free will, and we are constantly facing choices and decisions (Clip 5). This reality makes it almost impossible to be completely sold out to God, because we are always at a crossroads between our own desires and God's will. However, he also stresses that at the moment of salvation, we receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and God leaves it to us how much of that fullness we maintain (Clip 3). The Christian life is a matter of pouring out the world and allowing God to fill us, which is a continual process, not a one-time perfect attainment. Furthermore, Les points out that even the Apostle Paul struggled with weakness, showing that human limitations are part of the equation (Clip 0). Ultimately, while total sold-outness may be nearly impossible, it is the goal and God's desire for every believer.
Les Feldick explains that we are all constantly facing choices and decisions, and even though God is sovereign, the exercise of free will is still ours (Clip 5). This means that at any moment, we can choose to focus on ourselves rather than on God. The struggle is real and ongoing, pulling us away from total devotion. This is why perfect sold-outness is so difficult.
While total perfection in devotion may be out of reach, God's desire is for us to be fully committed. Les teaches that at salvation, we receive all of God as He can put Himself into us, and we have the fullness of the Holy Spirit from the very moment we believe (Clip 3). The question is whether we will maintain that fullness or let it 'empty out.' The goal is to pour out the world and be filled with God, which is a daily choice.
Human Weakness
Les references Paul's weakness, indicating that even the greatest apostle was not completely sold out in human terms, relying on God's strength in weakness.
Romans 8:31-39 Explained — Why Nothing Can Separate You From God
And the reason I'm using that example, I had a fellow tell me that one time. I said, look, the Scripture says that God will never cast us out. Oh, he said, I know that. But he said, I could cast myself out. I said, how? Oh, he said, by committing some horrible sin. I said, look, you can't touch yourself so far as being in that position in the body of Christ any more than someone else can.
Why Mixing Law and Grace Cancels the Work of the Cross
If he is doing something to fulfill his salvation, or put the frosting on the cake, however you want to put it, they're lost as lost can be because the Book says so. Christ can profit you nothing, and the only way you and I are ever going to get into God's heaven is because of what Christ profits us on our behalf. So we have to warn people, don't depend on something that you can do.
Fullness of the Spirit at Salvation
Les explains that we receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit at salvation, but we must maintain it by pouring out the world. This shows that sold-outness is a maintained state, not a fixed one.
What Happens After Christ's 1,000-Year Reign? 1 Corinthians 15:28
Now you can just about wake up in the middle of the night and consider that verse, can't you? That after he has put everything under Christ's feet, and he has become all in all, yet there's coming a day when even Christ is going to evidently give everything up to the Godhead.
Free Will and Constant Choices
Les teaches that we are always facing choices, and though God is sovereign, we exercise free will. This makes complete sold-outness difficult because we can always choose away from God.
Are Christians Required to Tithe? 2 Corinthians 8:7-9 Explained
How much of this world's goods did those fellows have? None. Now this is where the Lord Jesus took himself. He took himself to the depths of being a slave, with absolutely nothing of this world's goods to call his own. Unbelievable? Yes it is from the human side, and I can't comprehend it, but it's what the Word declares, that the Almighty God Himself in the person of Christ, became a slave, and w…
What the Bible Really Says About the Lord's Table — 1 Corinthians 10:16
I think Jesus made the statement Himself, didn�t He? You cannot serve God and mammon. You can�t have one foot in the world, and one foot in the church, it just won�t work. Oh you can get by for a while, but you�re miserable. Now this of course is just strictly forbidden. Now in verse 22.
Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
This verse directly addresses the impossibility of divided allegiance, which relates to complete sold-outness.
Romans 8:31-39: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This passage emphasizes God's sovereign control and the security of the believer, which supports Les's teaching that God is in control.
Les Feldick indicates that perfection in sold-outness is almost impossible because of our free will and constant choices (Clip 5). However, God desires us to strive for that level of commitment, and He has given us the Holy Spirit to help us (Clip 3).
Being sold out to God means having complete devotion, with no divided allegiance. As Jesus said, you cannot serve both God and mammon (Matthew 6:24). Les teaches that while we may not achieve it perfectly, it is the goal of the Christian life.
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