WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?

Part three

Now after studying the meaning of some words and phrases according to Gods word, which kind of Christian do you see yourself as.

Do you call yourself Christian simply because you go to a church that teaches just a little from the Bible and mentions Christ occasionally.

Do you consider yourself Christian just because you are allowed to sing in the choir or on the praise team or perhaps tend children in a controlled setting.

Do you call yourself Christian just because you stand behind a pulpit on Sunday ?

Hell holds many people just like that.

Or are you a true born-again Christian according to Gods Word ?

2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith, prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ?

Are you on fire for Jesus, seven days of the week, or is He someone you only think about whenever convenient or on Sundays only ?

Is Jesus the center of your thoughts, or is the world and your own self interests the center of your life ?

Most people believe that they are a true Christian not because of Gods Word, but because of their own distorted, unbiblical beliefs.

Can you be truthful with yourself on this important subject ?

Most people think they are saved, yet the Bible tells us that only a few will enter into heaven.

Which are you according to Gods Word?

IT IS GODS WORD AND NOT YOUR EMOTIONS THAT WILL JUDGE YOU AT THE JUDGMENT

John 12:48 “He that rejected Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”

YOU ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY MUST BE BORN-AGAIN ACCORDING TO GODS WORD, OR…….. YOU WILL PERISH

John 3:3 “ Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

1 Peter 1:23 “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.”

1 John 3:8-10 “He that commiteth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning for this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whosever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remained in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.”

A true Christian is not one that without merit calls himself a Christian or allows others to do so.

A true Christian is one that has been born -again according to the Word of God, which shall judge him. A true Christians actions should bear witness that he has the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, not according to what people think, but according to the Word of God.

Question----What type of Christian are you?

Examine yourself by Gods Word to see.

Are you a true Christian, a disciple of Gods Word, a saint in the eyes of God through faith in Jesus Christ, or are you only a nominal Christian?

May I close this teaching with these words regarding the things that you speak?

Is your conversation as a Christians ought to be?

Colossians: 4-6 “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

OR IS YOUR CONVERSATION CENTERED ON THINGS OF THE WORLD?

John 3:31 “He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth.”

A worldly, carnal person, their conversation is not focused on Jesus------but on the world.

The carnal worldly person has their own conversation

Ephesians 2:3 “In the lust (of their ) flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and (are) by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”

1John 4:5 “They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

Philippians 3:19-20 “(Their) End is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly conversations.”

WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER?

To be heard of by the world or heard of by the God of heaven?

Malachi 3: 16-17 “ Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.” vs. 18 “Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth GOD and him that serveth him not.”

It cannot be stated in any simpler matter, the words of our mouth just may cause GOD to come near and listen!

If you desire to become a true born-again Christian, we invite you to contact us.

It doesn’t matter where you are in thirty eight nations or in any state in the U.S. of A. someone will contact you if that is your desire.

There is no time to waste.

James 4:14 “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeared, for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”